Text Types and Purposes · JHS3 English Language

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B9.4.2.1.4 - Write an informative, explanatory text on a familiar or unfamiliar topic

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify the organisational structure of an informative text, including introduction, sequenced explanation, and conclusion.
Use objective, neutral language to explain how and why a given situation or problem occurs.
Write a paragraph explaining how a familiar local situation happens, using clear steps in a logical order.
Organise ideas in an informational report so that the sequence of events or causes and effects is clear to the reader.
Revise a given informative text by removing biased or opinion-based statements and replacing them with factual, measurable information.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Writing (Strand 4)
Sub-strand: Text Types and Purposes (4.2)
Content standard: B9.4.2.1 - Use a process approach to compose descriptive, narrative/ imaginative, informational and persuasive, argumentative texts
Indicator: B9.4.2.1.4 - Write an informative, explanatory text on a familiar or unfamiliar topic
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: English Language, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 94
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Write an informational text to show how and why something happened:
  - Vividly describe a situation.
  - Give details of how a problem/situation occurs
    - show what needs to be done
    - indicate how it needs to be done
    - tell why it will work
- Use appropriate, objective language to explain points.
- Organise ideas and points in an information text logically.
- Using selected topics, write reports that are devoid of decisions based on personal bias, cultural differences and any other criterion that cannot be measured or proven