In other words plays are meant to be performed and speeches are meant to be delivered orally whereas novels and memoirs are meant to be read.

What are the text genres for reading and writing. Different narrative and expository genres have different purposes and different audiences and so they require different text structures. For an overview of genres see Genre overview docx - 3512kb Macro genres are texts which involve different genres. In this type of text instructions and guidelines are presented on certain things such as manuals and recipes.

Among the examples of textual genres we can mention. A text structure is the framework of a texts beginning middle and end. The term genre is more reading-related.

Genre is the classification and organization of literary works into the following categories. Style and design of the text. Narrative Non- fiction and poetry.

5 Instructional Text. In the 1980s as genre began to refer to a much broader set of text types letters memos essays proposals it also began to inform the teaching of writing A limitation of these uses of the term genre was that they simply identified text types and made generalizations about their usual forms So teaching focused on patterns and organizations or on what and how to write a letter or a proposal but not. Genres Shape Situations and Readers.

When you choose a particular genre you are deciding what kinds of issues will be highlighted and what role your readers will play. Narrative Writing Narratives entertain and engage the reader in an imaginative experience. CCSS uses the term opinion for the writing of younger students in this mode and for older writers.

That doesnt mean however that we dont use genre in the writing classroom. Andor formulaic patterns of character interactions and events and an overall predictable form. Genres give you blueprints for different types of stories.