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Grade
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ENGLISH
QUARTER 2 – MODULE 2
Identifying the purpose, key structural and
language features of various types of
information/ factual text
 Region I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF PANGASINAN II
Binalonan

Name: ____________________________ Date: ___________________

Grade/ Section: _____________________ Score: __________________

ENGLISH 6 MODULE 2
QUARTER 2

MELC: Distinguish various types of informational/ factual text

EN6LC-IIb-3.2

Objective:
1. Identify the purpose, key structural and language features of various types of
information/ factual text.
•K to 12 BEC CG: EN6LC-IIIa-3.2.8

SUBJECT: ENGLISH 6
Quarter 2
Module No. 2

Title of Activity: Identifying the purpose, key structural and language features of
various types of information/ factual text.
 PART 1. Introduction

Information text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing

information about arts, sciences or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper
and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and
reference materials.

There are specifically four types of information text: literally nonfiction,

expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural.

Literary Nonfiction
Literary nonfiction includes shorter texts, such as “personal essays, speeches, opinion pieces, essays
about art or literature, biographies, memoirs, journalism, and historical, scientific, technical, or economic
accounts ( including digital sources) written for a board audience.” Autobiographies, biographies, other
narrative nonfiction, informational picture books, and informational poetry often fit into this category.

Narrative information text typically communicates accurate information and has a well-defined
beginning, middle, and end. Information poetry weaves facts into poems.

Procedural Text

Procedural Text provide step- by- step guidelines that describe how to complete a task. They often
include a materials-needed section and graphics that illustrate the process, as found in Dough Stillinger’s
The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes. Jane Drake and ANN Love’s Get Outside provides readers with
rules for games and directions for making things like bird feeders, kites and sundials.

Expository Text

Expository text inform, explain and expose. They utilize various text structures, such as
description, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, question and answer, and
temporal sequence.
Argument or Persuasion Texts

Argument or persuasion texts provide evidence with the intent of influencing the belief or
actions of the target audience. These texts typically include claims, evidence, and warrants to
explain how the evidence is linked to the claims. Writers of persuasion or argument also make
appeals-appeals to the author’s credibility, to the audience’s needs, or to reason and evidence.

For Your Information (FYI)

Listen to your teacher as he/she reads the informational text. Then answer the
questions that follow.

The Bounty of the Sea

by Jacques Cousteau

1. I have observed and studied the oceans closely and I have seen them sicken. Certain reefs that
teemed with fish only ten years ago are now almost lifeless. The ocean bottom has been raped
by trawlers. Priceless wetlands have been destroyed by land fill. And everywhere are sticky globs
of oil, plastic refuse, and unseen clouds of poisonous effluents. Often when I describe the
symptoms of the ocean’s sickness, I hear remarks like “ they’re only whales.” But I assure you
that our destinies are linked with theirs. For if the ocean should die, this would signal not only
the end of marine life but all other animals and plants of this earth, including man.

2. The ocean would then become one enormous cesspool. Billions of decaying bodies would
create such as a stench that man would be forced to leave all the coastal regions.

3. The oceans acts as the earth’s buffer. It maintains a balance between salts and gases which
make life possible. But dead seas would have no buffering effect. The carbon dioxide content of
the atmosphere would start on a steady climb, and when it reached a certain level, a”
greenhouse effect” would be created. The heat that normally radiates outward from the earth to
space would be blocked by the carbon dioxide and the sea level temperatures would increase.

4. One catastrophic effect of this heat would be melting of the icecaps at both the North and
South Poles. As a result, the ocean would rise by 100 feet or more enough to flood almost all of
the world’s major cities. These rising waters would drive one- third of the earth billions inland,
creating famine, chaos, and disease on a scale almost impossible to imagine.

5. Meanwhile, the surface of the ocean would have scrummed over by a film of decayed matter
and would no longer give water freely to the skies through evaporation. Rain would become a
rarity, creating global drought and more famine.
6. The wretched remnant of the human race would now be packed on the remaining highlands,
starving and struggling to survive. Then, they would be visited by the final plague, anoxia (lack of
oxygen). This would be caused by the extinction of the plankton algae and the reduction of land
vegetation, the two sources that supply the oxygen you are now breathing.

7. And so man would finally die, slowly gasping out his life on some barren hill. His heirs would
be bacteria and a few scavenger insects.

PART II. PRACTICE EXERCISES

EXERCISE I

Direction: Read these sentences carefully then choose the correct answer.
1. What is the author most likely to be?
a. sailor c. a scientist
b. an ocean diver d. a fisherman

2. What is the basis of his report?

a. site inspection c. fantasy
b. readings d. estimates

3. Which of these is not contributory to sickened ocean?

a. reefs c. oil globs
b. trawlers d. plastic refuse

4. The melting of icecaps in the polar regions would cause oceans to sink?
a. Yes c. Does not say
b. No d. None
5. Which of these would be immediately affected if a film of decayed matter would
cover oceans?
a. evaporation c. irrigation
b. rainfall d. harvest

6-7. Which two factors would drive people to the highlands?

a. crowding c. disease
b. stench d. starvation

8-9. One catastrophic effect of this heat would be melting of the icecaps at both?
a. South Pole c. East and West Poles
b. North Pole d. None of the above

10. What is anoxia?

a. lack of oxygen c. lack of energy
b. dehydrated d. astigmatism

EXERCISE 2

Direction: Based from the Science-based text entitled “The Bounty of the Sea”,
answer the following questions by applying your skills in context clues, affixes and
roots, and other strategies. Choose the correct answer.
1. Wetlands are synonymous to ___________
a. rivers c. ponds
b. swamps d. seas

2. What is the reference of the pronounce it in the second sentence of paragraph 3

a. balance c. ocean
b. life d. earth
3. What is the root word of the word rarity?
a. rar c. rarity
b. rare d. –ity

4. The remark that’s only fish suggest________________

a. indifference c. concern
b. arrogance d. anger

5. Which of these does not belong to land vegetation?

a. farms c. orchards
b. gardens d. reef

6. When a person gasps, he struggle for lack of __________

a. oxygen c. food
b. companion d. sleep

7. Where are plankton algae found?

a. in coastal regions c. in the highlands
b. in the sea d. inlands

8. The phrase “wretched remnant” in the first sentence of paragraph 5 shows that
most people may have_________
a. migrated c. died
b. remained on the coasts d. gotten sick

9. The “greenhouse effect” in the 3rd sentence of paragraph 3 suggest__________

a. plant propagation c. freezing
b. maintaining normal temperature d. heating
10. The ocean acts as the earth’s buffer. It maintains a balance between salts and
gases which make life possible. The word “ buffer” as used in the first sentence of
paragraph 3 means?

a. destroyer c. converter
b. neutralizer d. observer

PART III. SUMMATIVE EVALUATION

A. Direction: Match the following types of informational text to its description.
Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank before each number.
_____1. Argument Text a. utilizes question and answer, problems and solutions

_____2. Literary Nonfiction b. Provide step by step guidelines that describe how to
complete a task
_____3. Procedural Text c. Includes biographies, memoirs, journalism and
historical, scientific, technical, or economic account
_____4. Expository Text d. Includes claims, evidence, and warrants to explain
How the evidence is linked to the claim

B. Direction: Read the following authentic texts then choose the correct answer.

Telephone Conversation
Mrs. Reyes, called up her son, Marco over the telephone and requested him to buy
something for her.

Mrs. Reyes: Hello Marco. Where are you now?

Marco: I’m still attending my class, Ma. Why?

Mrs. Reyes: Ah ok. Can you buy me some pain reliever at the pharmacy right after
your class?

Marco: Sure, Ma. Just text me what medicine I will buy? For now, I still need to
review my notes. We will have a test later.

Mrs. Reyes: Ok, thank you my son. Come home early ha?
Marco: Yes, Ma
Mrs. Reyes: See you later.
1. Who called up her son over the telephone?
a. Mrs. Reyes c. Mrs. Cruz
b. Mrs. Castro d. Mrs. Santo

2. What is the name of the son?

a. Patrick c. Paolo
b. Marco d. Pablo

3. Why did Mrs. Reyes call up her son?

a. to ask him to do something for her
b. to ask him to clean the house.
c. to ask him to wipe the floor.
d. to ask him to write a letter.

4. What did Mrs. Reyes request her to son to do?

a. Mrs. Santos requested her son to buy her some pain reliever at the
pharmacy.
b. Mrs. Santos requested her son to buy her some food in the market.
c. Mrs. Santos requested her son to buy her school supplies.
d. None of the above.

5. What kind of a son is Marco?

a. Marco is an obedient c. Marco is lazy
b. Marco is boastful d. b and c

6. Using the dictionary, find out the meaning of the word reliever?
a. relieves pain c. stress
b. discomfort d. all of the above

C. Direction: Listen carefully to the selections, then identify what type of

informational text they are. Write Literary Nonfiction, Procedural Texts,
Expository Texts or Persuasive Texts on the space provided.
1. Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal was born in the town of Calamba Laguna on 19 th June 1861.
The second son and the seventh among the eleven children of Francisco Mercado and
Teodora Alonzo.

With his mother as his first teacher, he began his early education at home and
continued in Binan., Laguna. He entered a Jesuit –run Ateneo Minicipal de Manila in 18
1872 and obtained a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in 1876. He studied
medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop because he felt that the
Filipino students were being discriminated by their Dominican tutors. He went to
Madrid at Universidad Central de Madrid and in 1885 at the age of 24, he finished his
course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of “Excellent”.

2. A sundial compass is a combination of these two instruments, consisting of a portable

sundial which is attached over a compass via a hinge. There are some adjustable legs
that need to be used to level the instrument if not on level ground. The gnome is hinged
and needs to be put in the up position where it locks into place. There should be what
looks like a protractor that is to the right of the gnome that is on a hinge, and this needs
to be flipped up as well. The protractor is used to set the sundial to the correct latitude
angle, while the compass is used to find the true north based on the areas magnetic
north declination.

Once your sundial compass has been leveled, set to the correct latitude, and to true
north, a shadow will be cast on to the sundial’s face by the gnome. For use in the
southern hemisphere, the same procedure is followed with the exception the true
South must be found instead of the true North.

3. Just like visible light, infrared light, and radio waves, ultraviolet light is electro magnetic
radiation. On the spectrum, ultraviolet lights lies between violet light and x rays, with
wavelengths ranging from 4 to 400 nanometers. Although it is undetectable to the naked
eye, anyone who has been exposed to too much sunlight has probably noted the effects
of ultraviolet light, for it is this radiation that causes tanning, sunburn, and can lead to
skin cancer.
 4. Teenagers are forever being told that they need a good education so that they can
have the career they want, but many do not listen. However, it is important to
remember that your schooling, no matter how long it may feel, lasts for just a few short
years compared to the rest of your life ahead of you. Therefore, it is better to sacrifice a
little bit of fun now so that you can find happiness in later life, as you will be happier if
you can do a job that you enjoy and afford to do the things you want.

D. Direction: Cut out and paste one sample of short selection (from old
newspaper or magazine) of any type of informational text.
 ANSWER KEY
Exercise I
1. A
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. A, B
6-7. B, D
8-9. A, B
10. A

Exercise 2
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. C
9. D
10. B

References:
A. Book
Activity Sheet in English 6, Quarter 2, Week 2, pp.1-5
B. Online and Other Source
https://www.academia.edu

Prepared by:
ARLENE F. MORENO
Teacher III