Understanding Functional Skills: Text Analysis and Application
This instructional text guides learners through the purpose of functional skills in analyzing different types of text, such as skimming and scanning, and understanding the features of various text genres. It includes activities to practice skimming, scanning, and detailed reading, with a focus on descriptive text and enhancing language skills.
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Functional Skills Purpose of Text Rebecca Maynard
Aims & Objectives O By the end of this session all learners should: O Have an understanding of skimming and scanning. O Know the four different types of text. O Recognise the different features of types of text. O Be able to write appropriately for that type of text.
Skimming and Scanning O Write a definition of skimming in your workbook O Skimming is gaining the main gist of a piece of text using pictures/headlines/subheadings and anything else that appeals to you as the reader. O Write a definition of scanning in your workbook O Scanning is looking for specific information in a piece of text rather than reading the text in full. O Detailed reading is reading the text in full taking everything in.
Quiz O Scanning O Scanning O Detailed reading O Detailed reading O Skimming/scanning O Detailed reading O Scanning O Skimming O Dictionary O Telephone directory O Novel O Poem O Facebook O Exam questions O Magazine article O Newspaper
Types of Text O What are the four main types of text? O Informative O Instructive O Descriptive O Persuasive O Give examples for each in your workbook
Task Using the text examples fill in each section of the grid.
Lets start with descriptive. O Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing. O The five senses... O Smell/taste/touch/sound/sight O The five W s O Where/when/who/what/why and don t forget how.
The language of descriptive text O Using descriptive language and identifying process. O Using adjective and classifiers. O Using simple present tense. Adjective and synonyms Give me a synonym for the following adjectives: Beautiful Distressed Picturesque Quiet Magnificent
Task.. Taking a card from the list write a piece of descriptive text. Entry Level/Level 1 = one paragraph Level 2 = two paragraphs Level 3 = three paragraphs
Time to move on to persuasive . O Persuasive texts are all about getting you to do something e.g. advert/charity etc. O There are certain features to look out for in persuasive text: O Emotive language O Rhetoric O Quotes/examples O Anecdotes O Direct O Repetition O Text features O Give me an example of each of these in your workbook
O Write a persuasive advert for eBay. O You can sell anything you want to. O Remember to be persuasive and descriptive in your writing. O Entry Level/Level 1 = one paragraph O Level 2 = two paragraphs O Level 3 = three paragraphs
Conclusion O Have we met our objectives: O Have an understanding of skimming and scanning. O Know the four different types of text. O Recognise the different features of types of text. O Be able to write appropriately for that types of text. O Next week = informative/instructive text. O Any questions?
