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English
Quarter 1, Wk.1 - Module 1

Distinguishing Between and Among Informative,

Journalistic, and Literary Writing

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Distinguishing Between and Among Informative,
Journalistic, and Literary Writing

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About...................................................................................... i

What I Need to Know .............................................................................................. ii

How to Learn from this Module ............................................................................... ii

Icons of this Module ............................................................................................... iii

What I Know .......................................................................................................... iv

Lesson 1:

Distinguish Between and Among Informative, Journalistic, and Literary Writing .... 1

What I Need to Know ........................................................................ 1

What’s In ........................................................................................... 2

What’s New ....................................................................................... 3

What Is It ........................................................................................... 7

What’s More ...................................................................................... 12

What I Have Learned ........................................................................ 14

What I Can Do................................................................................... 16

Summary… ............................................................................................................ 20

Assessment: (Post-Test) ........................................................................................ 20

Key to Answers ...................................................................................................... 23

References ............................................................................................................. 26
What Is This Module All About
Hello GRADE 9 it’s back to school once again! Department of Education is doing
its best to make learning easier and fun for all the learners. We are all back to study and
to learn in the New Normal way. Our goal is for you to learn safely at home. We know all
of us are excited to continue learning and to go back to our classroom; but, we have to
find a way in order for you students to learn but not go to school physically. Through this
module, learners will still learn new lessons and topics. It is especially created and made
for everyone to enjoy and learn. Lastly, this material focuses on the different text types
under writing and comprehension competency that will be of great advantage for you to
express yourself well.

The following are the standards for the first quarter. Read below to get yourself
directed for this quarter’s journey of learning.

CONTENT STANDARD: The learner demonstrates understanding of how Anglo-

American literature and other text types serve as means of enhancing the self; also, how
to use processing, assessing, summarizing information, word deviation and formation
strategies, appropriate word order, punctuation marks and interjections to enable him/her
to participate actively in a speech choir.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The learner actively participates in speech choir

through using effective verbal and non-verbal strategies based on the following criteria:
Focus, Delivery, Facial Expressions, Body Movements/Gestures and Audience Contact.

LEARNING COMPETENCY & CODE: At the end of this topic, 75% of the
learners are expected to distinguish between informative, journalistic and literary writing
(EN9WC-Ia-8).

This module focuses on distinguishing between and among in formative,

journalistic, and literary writing that will help you understand different text/writing types as
means of enhancing your writing skills. As you go through the module, you will find varied
tasks and writing activities.

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 What I Need to Know

Below are the learning objectives that are set for you to learn as you go along
this module. You will be able to:

1. identify and distinguish between and among informative, journalistic, and literary
writing and or text type use in the given sample of passages;
2. create/write a text type using piece of information of your choice using any of the
certain type of text;
3. compose any of the text /writing type; whether it is informative, journalistic,
literary.

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:

• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the

module.

This is an assessment as to your level of

What I know knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
Knowledge

What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that

of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

These are discussions of the activities as a

What is It way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

These are follow-up activities that are

intended for you to practice further in order
What’s More to master the competencies.

Activities designed to process what you

What I Have have learned from the lesson
Learned

What I can do
These are tasks that are designed to show-
case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.

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 What I Know (Pretest)

Today, you will answer a pre- test to measure your previous knowledge about this topic.

Multiple Choice:
I. Multiple Choice: Read the statements carefully. Encircle the best answer.
1. It is a type of text which presents information that are found in radio, print or television.
A.informative B. literary C. journalistic

2. It gives readers straightforward information about a topic.

A. literary B. informative C. journalistic

3. It is a type of text which is usually non-fiction.

A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

1. It is written originally by a writer.

A. journalistic B. literary C. informative

2. It is a type of text which is defined as a wide variety of imaginative and creative writing.
A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

3. It serves to inform or discloses information.

A. journalistic B. informative C. literary

4. It is a type of text which leads to the appreciation of the cultural heritage of students.

A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

5. It is a type of writing which used to report news stories.

A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

6. It has a unique text type and construction level.

A. informative B. literary C. journalistic

7. It is a type of text in which the intention is to inform the reader about a specific topic.

A. literary B. informative C. journalistic

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8. It is a type of text which is instructive and instructional by nature.

A. journalistic B. literary C. informative

9. It is a type of text which is written using special text features that allows the reader to
easily find key information and understand the main topic.

A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

10. It is a type of text which are found in online journalism.

A. literary B. informative C. journalistic

11. It involves finding, creating, editing and publishing of news to be shared.

A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

12. It is a type of text in which visual representation may include: charts, diagrams, and
tables and these are accompanied by captions that further explain the image.

A. informative B. literary C. journalistic

13. It gives interests to people who would like to be inform of something.

A. Journalistic B. literary C. informative

14. It imparts straight forward information and facts; but never personal opinions.

A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

15. It relates to, or have the characteristics of humane learning.

A. literary B. informative C. journalistic

16. It is a type of text that imparts knowledge to the readers.

A. journalisticB. literary C. informative

17. It is a type of text which has shorter texts like for example: personal essays, opinion
pieces, speeches and literature essay.

A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

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II. Identify the type of text use in the following articles such as: informative, journalistic or
literary. Encircle the letter of your answer.

Text A

They walked downtown in the light of mother-of-pearl, to the Majestic, and

their way to seats by the light of the screen, in the exhilarating smell of stale tobacco,
rank sweat, and dirty drawers, while the piano played fast music and galloping horses
raised a grandiose lag of dust.
A Death in the Family by James Agee

1. A. informative B. literary C. journalistic

Text B

A fire of undetermined origin razed to the ground a three-story apartment of

Juana de la Cruz 456 Lapulapu St., Valencia City last night. Five fire companies
subdued it within an hour. The damage, estimated at P5 million, was covered by
insurance.
1. A. journalistic B. informative C. literary

Text C

Toledo, Spain (Reuters) - Scientists believe they could discover life outside the
Solar System within the next 25 years covered by insurance. “Yes, definitely, there’s
life out there, “Mike Kaplan, director of US space agency NASA’s origins program,
told Reuters during a meeting of Astronomers in Toledo.
The Philippine Star, 15 March 1996

2. A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

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 Text D

Scientific theories are not guesses or random ideas. A Scientific theory is a

collection of well-supported hypotheses based on repeated testing that explains
some aspect about the natural world.

3. A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

Text E

It was dark and stormy. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an
old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the
frenzied lashing of the wind.

4. A. journalistic B. literary C. informative

Process Questions:
1. How did you find the pre-test?
2. What were the terms in the test that you were familiar? Cite some.

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 Lesson
Distinguish Between and
1 Among Informative,
Journalistic and Literary
Writing

What I Need to Know

Below are the learning objectives that are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

You will be able to:

1. distinguish between and among informative, journalistic and literary writing;

2. identify the type of text sample provided;

3. make a Community Service Brochure observing informative text

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 What’s In
Hello learners! This time you will learn a new lesson which will give you idea on
how to distinguish types of text writing. Before we will proceed deeper to understand
clearly what this topic is all about let us refresh our background knowledge on informative,
journalistic and literary writing.

TEXT

A piece of writing that you read or create.

INFORMATIVE TEXT

It serves to inform or discloses information. It is instructive and / or instructional. It is

literary non-fiction, which has shorter texts like for example personal essays, opinion
pieces, speeches, and literature essay. It is written using special text features that allow
the reader to easily find key information and understand the main topic.

JOURNALISTIC TEXT

It also presents information but are those that are found in radio, print, television and
online journalism. It is written originally by a writer or journalist with a unique style and
construction level. It’s main goal is to give informative articles to the readers. News and
information are example of journalistic text.

LITERARY TEXT

It is defined as a wide variety of imaginative and creative writing that leads to the
appreciation of the cultural heritages of students. It is something related or associated
with literature or scholarly learning and writing. It has a wide variety of imaginative and
creative writing that leads to the appreciation of the cultural heritage.

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 What’s New

Preliminary Activities:

Now that you are refreshed with the new words introduced to you, try to answer
the given activity attentively.

Activity 1 – Identify the Text

Look at the given sample texts, then identify/distinguish which text type are
examples of informative, journalistic, or literary. Then write your answer at the side of
each texts provided for your answer.

TEXT TYPE OF
TEXT
1.
So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other
task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate
one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done
successfully then everything else follows naturally. Peace of
mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts.
Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce
work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the
serenity at the center of it all.
—Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2.
With an artistic drama, we empathize with one or more of its
characters, but there’s also a distance between us and their
situation—a safety valve that allows us to express a range of
emotions, but also to say, “It’s only a movie,” “It’s only a play,”
“It’s only a novel.” Work is based upon problem solving, how to
eliminate conflict and get the job done. Episodic is fine for work.
We want day-by-day not confrontational trauma—even if it would
lead to life-changing revelation. But drama exaggerates conflict,
pushes situations to their extreme, and leads us to a big turning
point.

3.
In a poem entitled Four Great Poets, Robert Francis puts his
finger on the heart of Frost’s greatness: “His head carved out of
granite O / His hair wayward drifts of snow / He worshipped the
great God of Flow / By holding on and letting go.” Here’s an
example from part of one of Frost’s lesser known pieces, For
Once, Then, Something. In the first half he says friends rebuke
him for looking into a well and seeing only himself, reflected in
the water godlike in a wreath of ferns and cloud puffs. It’s a
criticism that could be aimed at any writer, but what is as
interesting as the meaning of Frost’s reply is this sense of
movement that carries the reader forward to the climatic end.
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 TEXT TYPE OF
TEXT
4.
DHAKA: Hosts Bangladesh will meet Pakistan in the opening
match of the four-nation Asia Cup cricket tournament starting in
Dhaka in March, an official said on Monday. Old rivals Pakistan
and India will meet in a mouth-watering clash on March 18. The
Sher-e-Bangla National stadium will host all the matches,
including the inaugural tie on March 12 and the final on March
22, Asian Cricket Council chief executive Syed Ashraful Huq
said. “All teams including India and Pakistan have confirmed
their participation,” he said. India won the last edition of the
tournament in Dambulla in Sri Lanka in June 2010.
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5.From Beowulf
And then, in the morning, crowds surrounded
Herot, warriors coming to that hall
520 From faraway lands, princes and leaders
Of men hurrying to behold the monster’s
Great staggering tracks. They gaped with no sense
Of sorrow, felt no regret for his suffering,
Went tracing his bloody footprints, his beaten
525 And lonely flight, to the edge of the lake
Where he’d dragged his corpse like way, doomed
And already weary of his vanishing life.
The water was bloody, steaming and boiling
In horrible pounding waves, heat

530 Sucked from his magic veins; but the swirling

Surf had covered his death, hidden
Deep in murky darkness his miserable
End, as hell opened to receive him.
Then old and young rejoiced, turned back
535 From that happy pilgrimage, mounted their
hardhooved
Horses, high-spirited stallions, and rode them
Slowly toward Heorot again, retelling
Beowulf’s bravery as they jogged along.

Activity 2 – Listening Attentively with Informative Text

Now that you have done your best in the first activity, let us proceed with the next activity.

Before you listen

(For those with the internet follow this site to listen to the informative text.)

1. Brainstorm on how to use attentive listening with informative text.

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2. Concentrate on what the speaker is saying.

3. Clear their mind of any thoughts that could distract your attention.

4. Listen for main ideas, rather than isolated isolated words and phrases.

5. Stay alert for details that are new to you, while you take note of familiar information.

6. Ask questions that will clarify further what you are listening to.
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Look at the picture above. How would you describe the person? In what situation
do you think he is? Have you been in a similar situation? Our listening selection shows
you always to cope with such a situation.

As you Listen

Click on this link. https://youtu.be/yMzDEK2ZhjQ . Listen to an article on how to

conquer stage fright. Take down notes to answer the following questions:

1. What is stage fright?

2. What happens when a person experiences stage fright?

3. What are the tips given by the writer to overcome stage fright?

4. What are some suggestions just before a person goes on stage?

5. Why is stage fright considered normal?

6. Do you agree with the idea? Explain your answer

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For those who do not have the internet, I want you to read the informative text.

Conquering Stage Fright

Many people are gifted with different talents but most of them are just a part of the
audience on certain occasions. Their stage fright is the very reason why some are not
stage performers. It is normal to experience stage fright according to stage performers.
Actors and actresses believe that you can overcome your stage fright. By changing
your perception about stage fright and by following basic tips, you can conquer it.

Try these tips to get you on stage without butterflies in your stomach.

Practice. Constant practice makes perfect. You have to trust yourself. Self-confidence
is the best way to control or overcome stage fright.

Talk to yourself. Instead of thinking that you will be forgetting some lines, or that you
will not be able to pronounce the words correctly, think that you will be delivering
flawlessly, that you have talents to show, and that people will appreciate your
extraordinary performance.

Visualize. Picture yourself on stage with so many people listening as you do your part
without committing a single mistake.

Practice with a small audience. After you have practiced your piece alone, you may
invite other family members or friends to listen as you rehearse. Or prior to inviting
other people, you may rehearse in front of a mirror for you to see the needed
improvements to your facial or body gestures.

Are you beginning to feel confident as the curtain is about to unfold? Are you
still nervous? If yes, don’t worry, that’s normal. Here are some suggestions to
overcome nervousness.

Yawn. Our body needs oxygen to keep our muscles relaxed. Yawning keeps our tight
muscles relaxed and breathing becomes shallow.

Stretch. Just like yawning, stretching also helps muscles relax. Do some simple
exercises like shaking your hands and feet, rotating your neck and your head, then
keep still until the spotlight hits you.

Focus on the first few lines of your piece. After you have delivered the first few
lines, you will notice that your nervousness is slightly disappearing.

Trust yourself. Keep telling yourself that you will not make the audience notice it.

After your successful performance, you will realize that you can overcome your
stage fright and face the even work to your advantage if you learn to overcome it. After
that flawless performance comes another until facing big audiences becomes fairly
easy.

After each performance and your audience is standing ovation acknowledging

your extraordinary performance, bow your head gently and be humble.

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 What’s Is It
Discussion

Informative Writing

Informative writing gives readers straightforward information about a topic. It is

usually non-fiction.

Purpose:

 to inform or present information

 to raise awareness and to do so objectively
 to educate (use resources that are reliable and scholarly)

Structure:

 Introduction paragraph with thesis statement

 Body paragraphs with support
 Conclusion with a unique and engaging restatement of thesis

Organization:

 Logically – by date or time; by order of importance

 Categorically – by definition; by theme
 Contextually – by comparison and contrast; by historical or contemporary

Types of Informative Writing

a Factual recount – a type of informative text that has an objective of retelling a true
event that happened in the past

b Procedural – a type of informative text that has procedures to do one thing

c Diary – a type of informative text that records the daily experiences of a person

Sample Informative Text

The most popular tourist attraction is the capital city Rome itself, with its rich
cultural heritage. The Colosseum, Castle Sant'Angelo, Fontana di Trevi, the Pantheon,
and the Vatican are some of the most visited sites in Rome. Venice is another city in Italy
that is famous for its beautiful canals and gondolas. And if you are a lover of Italian art,
the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is a place you cannot afford to miss. The city of Naples is
known around the world for its architectural beauty and surely it is a photographer's
delight. The Leaning Tower of Pisa, being on of the Seven Wonders of the World, attracts
the highest number of visitors, not only in Italy, but in the whole of Europe.
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 It also gives you the opportunity to widen your business. Social Media is a great
and cheap way to tools.

Aside from that, it lets you meet people who can help you with your career. You
can find out what companies are hiring and hire people to hire for your company, you can
ask and get responds from your friends.
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Journalistic Writing

Journalistic writing is different from the other forms of literary texts. Unlike a
short story, poem, or novel, a journalistic text is more closely related to essay. News
reports, features, editorial, sports, and other columns in a newspaper or magazine are
considered journalistic texts.

Purpose:
 To quickly inform (news articles)
 To entertain (comics section, lifestyle column, feature)
 To persuade (editorial, opinion, column)

Structure:
 Inverted pyramid

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Organization:
 The essential and most interesting elements of a story are put at the beginning,
with supporting information following in order of diminishing importance.

Types of Journalistic Text

Print journalism – type of journalism that focuses on print media, such as newspapers
and magazines

Broadcast journalism – type of journalism that is being broadcast, . radio and

television

Yellow journalism – type of journalism that uses exaggerating words or sensationalism;

uses eye-catching heading

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Sample of Journalistic Writing

BAYOMBONG, NUEVA VIZCAYA—Vegetable farmers dumped tons of ripe tomatoes

on roadsides here and in nearby Ifugao province due to a glut in supply and low market
prices.
Small and medium-sized tomatoes were found abandoned along the roads in
Tinoc town in Ifugao on Tuesday, a week after tomatoes were also seen rotting on a
roadside in Bambang town in this province.
“The sorry sight of dumped tomatoes adds to the woes of farmers, who are
suffering from the impact of the quarantine,” Adrian Albano, administrator of Ifugao
Highland Farmers’ Forum, told the Inquirer by telephone on Thursday.
According to farmers, the low retail price of tomatoes would prevent them from
recovering their huge production expenses, as it would only cost them more to transport
the produce to buyers.
Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1287069/tomatoes-dumped-on-roadsides-in-nueva-vizcaya-ifugao#ixzz6OXT4S8BK

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-

19) cases surged to 20,626 as the Department of Health (DOH) reported Friday an
additional 244 cases.Meanwhile, 82 more patients have recovered from the respiratory
disease, bringing the total recoveries to 4,330.
The new reporting system has resulted in a massive surge in new COVID-19 cases
in recent days. But the DOH said the spike in cases does not mean that the outbreak is
getting worse as it attributed the increase to the government’s increased testing capacity
and “aggressive efforts” to catch up on the validation backlogs.
Earlier, COVID-19 Response Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon said the government
is now eyeing to include asymptomatic patients in its “expanded targeted testing”
program.
This came as he reported that the country’s rated testing capacity increased to
nearly 42,000 a day.
However, the DOH earlier said that daily actual tests done by all the accredited
laboratories is only around 8,000 to 9,000 as some testing centers face operational
issues.There are currently 52 accredited laboratories nationwide, of which,
40 can use RT-PCR tests while the other 12 are testing centers licensed to use
GeneXpert rapid tests.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1286940/philippines-covid-19-cases-surge-to-20626-deaths-near-1000#ixzz6OXWOWfJO
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Literary Writing

Literary writing may not be entirely factual or timely. It may also cover imaginary
events or ideas. It also tends to be subjective where the most important point may be
found anywhere in the text.

Purpose:

 To express
 To entertain
 To communicate or appeal to the emotions
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Structure:

 Depends on the form

Organization:

 Logically – by date or time; by order of importance

 Categorically – by definition; by theme
 Contextually – by comparison and contrast; by historical or contemporary

Types of Literary Text

a Prose
a Poetry

Sample of Literary Writing

It was a dark and stormy night.

In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry,

Wrapped in an old patchwork quilt,

Sat on the foot of her bed and

watched the trees tossing in the

frenzied lashing of the wind.

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Activity 3: Think it through:

To further enhance your knowledge on distinguishing the types of writing, Kindly read
carefully the given items then check the column where it belongs.

Items Given Informative Journalistic Literary

1. Novel

2. Factual recount

3. Sports news

4. Editorial column

5. A recipe for carbonara

6. Movie review

7. A social etiquette article

8. A brochure on the detecting signs of drug abuse

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 9. Poem on entitled: Why Do I Love Thee

10. 10 Signs of Covid 19 as Lead news

11. Magazine

12. The play entitled: “Romeo and Juliet”

13. How to Cook Paella

14. The Legend of Maria Cristina Falls

15. Pres. Duterte may align Funds vs. Covid 19,

says Driton

Activity 4: Show your Writing Talent

A. Informative Writing.

After going through the activities, you are now very familiar on distinguishing the
three (3) Types of Text. Choose one (1) of the following themes. Write your own
informative article.

 Friendship
 Love
 Courage
 Loyalty
B. Journalistic Writing.

1. Read an article/story from a newspaper. Cut it then, paste it on a short coupon

bond. Take note on the following key points.

2. Write a short news article on another short coupon bond.

 What is the story about?
 Are there words you do not understand?
 Give me an example of formal language used in the text?
 Write/pick out the five (5) W’s of the article (who, what, where, when, why). Write
down your answer at the bottom of your paper.
C. Literary Writing.

I want you to write one a short poem (1) as your example of literary writing base
on what you have learned from the module.

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 What I Have Learned
From the examples given, fill out the table below:

Informative vs. Journalistic vs. Literary Writing

Activity 4 A. Fill the table with the needed information

ELEMENT/FEATURE INFORMATIVE JOURNALISTIC LITERARY

Purpose

Manner of reading (formal,

informal,
entertaining/dramatic)

Format (where do you find

the text?)

Other Features

B. How Well Do You Know?

Directions: Identify whether the statement described is informative, journalistic or

literary writing.

1.It uses a wide variety of imaginative and

creative writing that leads to the appreciation of
a variety of subjects.

2.It is the style of writing used to report news

stories in newspapers, television broadcasts,
on radio and on the Internet.

3.These are texts which intend to inform the

reader or viewer. They use facts to describe
and explain people, animals, objects, events,
or phenomena.

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 4.It is a piece of written material, such as a book
or poem, that has the purpose of telling a story
or entertaining, as in a fictional novel. Its
primary function as a text is usually aesthetic,
but it may also contain political messages or
beliefs.

5.The purpose of this text is to educate and

enlighten the reader. It is a very
straightforward piece of writing.

C. After going through our lesson, let's fill in the triple Venn diagram shown below.
In each circle, enumerate the individual and unique features of informative, journalistic
and literary writing. However, on the overlapping parts of the circles, identify common
features shared between these types of discourse.

Journalistic Writing

Informative Writing Literary Writing

Making Connections to Your Schema

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 What Can I do

Enrichment Activity Activity 8 Community Services Brochure

The Community Services Brochure is your major output for this lesson. This
brochure specifically informs the public of the services available in your community. As
a form of informative writing, the brochure should present factual information and details
about any club, center or key persons offering services in your barangay/community
which you would like to feature. Other forms of informative writing include letters, reports,
speeches, review and instruction pamphlet.

The criteria for assessment will be: Focus, Content, Organization, Supports,
Visuals, Clarity and Language Mechanics. Here are some ideas which might help you in
the preparation and presentation of a Community Services Brochure. Keep these points
in mind as you go through the process.

Planning Stage

Think of a plan for the preparation of your brochure in which you can communicate
with your barangay but still following the social distancing technique where the following
points should be covered:

 You should create the simplest but presentable community services brochure you can do
but sill have all the essentials that a brochure should have e.g. pictures you can make
use, how to layout your brochure, what are the services in your barangay that you will
feature that you want other people to know etc.
 Identify the topic of your brochure.
 Clarify the main requirements of the brochure which are the topic, purpose, and audience.
 Clarify the purpose of the brochure. Answer these questions: Who will be interested to
read the brochure? Who needs it?
 Identify the key persons whom you will contact in the barangay, clubs or services that will
be highlighted in your brochure.

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 Gathering Information

Before you gather information, be sure that you have secured a permission to
conduct an interview with the key persons, services or club you planned to feature.

 Look for the key persons in the barangay you can make contact with, clubs, or centers,
that offer services that make a difference.
 Prepare questions (interview schedule) and put them in a logical order.
 Call or visit and interview at least three (3) people to learn more about their services.
 Make a list of their accomplishments/achievements and specialization.
 Find out what they consider important to their success.
 Collect photos, drawings, illustrations, or videos (if possible) showing ordinary people
making a difference by performing their roles in life willingly and graciously.

Drafting

 Consolidate the information you have gathered, and choose what will be used in your
brochure.
 Use few, simple, short, catchy but meaningful sentences and captions
 Think of the order you will use to organize the factual information.
 Point out the help, support, and benefits the club, or key persons receive as well as the
specialization or services they offer.
 Explain the significance of the services to the target readers.
 Through speaking and writing, report the services and needs of the clubs or
organizations.
 Use photos and charts in the presentation.

Writing and Presenting

 Ask your teachers to read and evaluate your brochure

 Ask for comments and suggestions
 Look over the first draft and rewrite it.
 Polish your draft incorporating the suggestions made by your evaluators
 Do the finishing touches and present your Community Services Brochure.

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 RUBRIC FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES BROCURE

Criteria Expert Proficient Developing Basic Beginning

5 4 3 2 1

Focus Information Most of the Some of the Too many No relevant

included are information are information are irrelevant information
relevantto the relevant except for relevant but with included in can be
objectives of one or two noticeable the gleaned
the brochure irrelevant brochure from the
information brochure

Content Has all the Has all the required Has most of the Has little of
required information(see required information the required
information(s checklist) information
ee checklist)
and some
additional
information

Organization Information is Information is well- Information is Information

well- organized and coherent but not is confusing
organized and coherent except 1 very organized to the
coherent reader

Support Well- Most of the Lacking

supported headings/topics are support
headings/sub- well-supported
headings and
more

Visuals Graphics go The graphics go Graphics go well Graphics Graphics

well with the well with the text but with text but there do not go included
text. there are too many are too few well with are merely
that they distract the text and filters
There is good from the text appear to
mix of text and be
graphics randomly
chosen

Attractivene Has Acceptable but Either too

ss (Layout) exceptionally could not have done garish or
attractive better too bland
formatting

Clarity Purpose of Purpose is Purpose for

brochure is somewhat clear making
clear to the brochure is
reader not clear to
the reader

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 Criteria Expert Proficient Developing Basic Beginning

5 4 3 2 1

Language Writing done 4-5 errors in 6-7 errors in 8-10 errors 10 or more
Mechanics in complete grammar, grammar, in grammar, errors in
(Writing sentences capitalization & capitalization & capitalizatio grammar,
conventions) punctuation punctuation n & capitalizatio
Capitalization punctuation n &
& punctuation punctuation
are correct
throughout
the brochure

Copies for Gave >20 Gave 15-19 copies Gave 10-14 copies Gave > 10 No copies
organization copies copies

Posted Posted online Posted online with Posted online with

online with less than 6-10 11-15
5 suggestion suggestions/reactio suggestions/reactio
ns for improvement ns for improvement

Timeliness Submitted at Submitted a day Submitted on Submitted Submitted

least 2 days before deadline deadline date one (1) day 2-4 days
before date after after
deadline deadline deadline
date date

*Points will be forfeited if work is submitted more than 5 days after deadline date

Content Checklist:

 Contact information: This often ends up being the flap or the back of the brochure;
should contain all the ways your clubs or organization can be contacted (names,
addresses, phone number, email, web address)

 Mailing addresses: One of the outside panels of your brochure should have a return
address for your organization and a blank area where you can stick a mailing label or
write and address. Saves you the cost of envelopes!

 Front cover. This should contain your name, logo, and slogan, but not much more.
Keep it from getting too crowded and chaotic,but try to make the reader
interested in opening the brochure up and reading on.

 Features/benefits: This is usually the inside of the brochure. This part of

your brochure should tell a bit about what your program does and what the
benefits are to those who become involved.

 Action: What can the reader do? This could focus on how the volunteer can pitch in
and help the group or coalition, or it could focus on how the volunteer can benefit from
the services him/herself. You can include both, if you’d like.

 Elsewhere, if desired, a brief history of the organization, directions on how to access

or use services provided, how the organization is funded, or information on the staff.

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 Summary

The learners will make personal connections by using their schema (background
knowledge) in distinguishing between and among the types of text introduce and
provided for them in this module. The learners will also be guided to apply what they have
learned from this module in which they will make use of their daily life outside the four (4)
walls of the classroom.

Assessment: (Post-Test)

I. Multiple Choice: Read the statements carefully. Encircle the best answer.
1It is a type of text which presents information that are found in radio, print or television.
A.informative B. literary C. journalistic

2.It gives readers straightforward information about a topic.

A. literary B. informative C. journalistic

3. It is a type of text which is usually non-fiction.

A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

4.It is written originally by a writer.

A. journalistic B. literary C. informative

5. It is a type of text which is defined as a wide variety of imaginative and creative writing.

B. literary B. journalistic C. informative

6. It serves to inform or discloses information.

B. journalistic B. informative C. literary

7. It is a type of text which leads to the appreciation of the cultural heritage of students.

B. literary B. journalistic C. informative

8.It is a type of writing which used to report news stories.

B. literary B. journalistic C. informative

9.It has a unique text type and construction level.

B. informative B. literary C. journalistic

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10. It is a type of text in which the intention is to inform the reader about a specific topic.

B. literary B. informative C. journalistic

11. It is a type of text which is instructive and instructional by nature.

B. journalistic B. literary C. informative

12. It is a type of text which is written using special text features that allows the reader to
easily find key information and understand the main topic.

B. informative B. journalistic C. literary

13.It is a type of text which are found in online journalism.

B. literary B. informative C. journalistic

14. It involves finding, creating, editing and publishing of news to be shared.

B. informative B. journalistic C. literary

15. It is a type of text in which visual representation may include: charts, diagrams, and
tables and these are accompanied by captions that further explain the image.

B. informative B. literary C. journalistic

16. It gives interests to people who would like to be inform of something.

B. Journalistic B. literary C. informative

17. It imparts straight forward information and facts; but never personal opinions.

B. literary B. journalistic C. informative

18.It relates to, or have the characteristics of humane learning.

B. literary B. informative C. journalistic

19.It is a type of text that imparts knowledge to the readers.

B. journalisticB. literary C. informative

20.It is a type of text which has shorter texts like for example: personal essays, opinion
pieces, speeches and literature essay.

B. informative B. journalistic C. literary

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II. Learner will identify the type of text use in the following articles such as: informative,
journalistic or literary. Encircle the letter of your answer.

Text A

They walked downtown in the light of mother-of-pearl, to the Majestic, and their
way to seats by the light of the screen, in the exhilarating smell of stale tobacco, rank
sweat, and dirty drawers, while the piano played fast music and galloping horses raised
a grandiose lag of dust. A Death in the Family by James Agee

1. A. informative B. literary C. journalistic

Text B

A fire of undetermined origin razed to the ground a three-story apartment of Juana

de la Cruz 456 Lapulapu St., Valencia City last night. Five fire companies subdued it
within an hour. The damage, estimated at P5 million, was covered by insurance.

2. A. journalistic B. informative C. literary

Text C

Toledo, Spain (Reuters) - Scientists believe they could discover life outside the
Solar System within the next 25 years covered by insurance. “Yes, definitely, there’s
life out there, “Mike Kaplan, director of US space agency NASA’s origins program, told
Reuters during a meeting of Astronomers in Toledo.
The Philippine Star, 15 March 1996

3. A. informative B. journalistic C. literary

Text D

Scientific theories are not guesses or random ideas. A Scientific theory is a collection
of well-supported hypotheses based on repeated testing that explains some aspect
about the natural world.

4. A. literary B. journalistic C. informative

Text E

It was dark and stormy. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old
patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied
lashing of the wind.

5. A. journalistic B. literary C. informative

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 Activity 7

Element/Feature INFORMATIVE JOURNALISTIC LITERARY

* To inform the reader about * informs the public by * it is a piece of writing, such
the natural or social world reporting on local, national as a book, poem, etc.
Purpose and global news and events
* It conveys information
accurately. * journalists strive to write
articles that have wide
* it increase knowledge, appeal and can be easily
explain a procedure, or explore understand
a concept in depth
* uses a variety of sentence * reading literary writing
structure to help the reader like novels, poems is
Manner of Reading from getting bored, and ideas * Journalism is about different from reading
(formal, informal, are organized in a way that telling people what they magazines and news
entertaining/dramatic) makes sense didn’t know, stories

* each body paragraph * makes the reader want to * readers get immersed in
should focus on explaining a about it more reading stories and want to
single idea that was introduced get to know the characters
in the thesis statement and and wonder about the
develops the topic in a logical outcome
order

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Format * the basic structure of * follows the 5W’s (who, * follows the introduction,
informative essay is very what, where, when, why) body and conclusion which is
(where do you find the simple question in order for it to the basic structure to
text) report a news stories maintain in most formats of
* it needs to have beginning, academic writing when it
middle and end. comes to reading stories

* formal by nature that follows * has literary element that

the introduction, body, and describes the ways the
conclusion respectively author uses words- word
choice, sentence
structure, figurative
language and sentence
arrangement all work together
to establish mood, images,
and meaning in the text.
Other Features Structure: * a style of writing that is * usually fictional, and it
used to report news stories makes use of figurative
* clear opening in a variety of media symbolic language
formats
* general information about * usually fiction that
the topic * obvious characteristics of displays a sense or reality
the style include short,
* summarizing conclusion simple sentences and * tension or conflict
paragraphs that present
* interesting, easy to read the * artistic unity ( main idea is
objective stories based on
layout conveyed)
facts
Language * use figurative language (
* journalists use quotes to
give the story credibility simile, metaphor, irony,
* present tense symbolism, etc.)
* first person or third person
(depends on topic
-can be personal)

* connectives to make it clear

and coherent

* mostly facts (but can contain

opinion if its a personal text)

* rhetorical questions to
engage reader’s interest

* specific examples

* bullet point summarizes may

be appropriate/help

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