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Text Types

Information on a range of text types for literacy is contained here. The text types are broken into three genres: Narrative, Non- fiction and poetry. Each of these genres has then been sub-divided into specific text types such as adventure, explanation or a specific form of poetry, e.g. haiku.


Narrative Non-fiction Poetry
Adventure
Mystery
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical fiction
Contemporary fiction
Dilemma Stories
Dialogue
Myths
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Legends
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Fairy tales
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Fables
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Traditional tales guidance
 
Discussion texts
Explanatory texts
Instructional texts
Persuasion texts
Non-chronological reports
Recounts
Free verse
Visual poems
Structured poems