Grade 6: English
Grade 6: English
Grade 6: English
Grade
6
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
ENGLISH 6 MODULE 2
QUARTER 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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
a. destroyer c. converter
b. neutralizer d. observer
_____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: 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
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.
6. Using the dictionary, find out the meaning of the word reliever?
a. relieves pain c. stress
b. discomfort d. all of the above
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”.
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