identify informational text-types_lesson

1. Topics
Identifying Informational
Text-Types
Using Card Catalogue

2.  Review
classify the Movies below if it is fiction or nonfiction.

3. This is a card catalogue.
Have you used one in doing research?

4. “Today we are going to learn about the
informational text, its type and their use.”
“We will also study how to use a card
catalogue.”

5. Motivation
have you read one of these? Have you already used them
in doing research?

6. Modelling for Students
Have the students listen to news from the
newspaper or an article from a magazine.
Then ask them what they have learned from what
they’ve just listened to.
Ask: “What have you noticed about the article?”
“How many topics were there?”
“Was it informational?”
Next, discuss what a card catalogue is and what its
parts are. Discuss also the use of a card catalogue is.

7.  Guided Practice
 To fully understand more about informational text and its
type, have the students read “Read and Learn” on the
LM page ____.
 Take a trip to the library and ask the students to look
through the card catalogues in your library. Ask them to
identify its parts
 Independent Practice
 Choose one book from the Library and make a card
catalogue.
 Use ¼ of an index card.

8.  Informational texts are nonfictional writing, written with the
intention to of informing the reader about a specific topic. It is
typically found in magazines, newspaper, science books,
autobiographies, and instruction manuals.
 It uses special text which allows its users to easily find key
information and understand the main topic. This is done by
placing a header over certain sections. It may also use visual
representation with captions which includes pictures, graphs,
tables, diagrams, and charts.
 A card catalogue is a file of cards uniform in size arranged in
some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a
library or group of libraries. Each card identifies a single item.
 The parts of a card catalogue are (1) call number; (2) author; (3)
Title Entry; (4) publisher; (5) series title; and (6) subject headings.

9. Evaluation
 Identify if the following books if there are informational
text or not. Write  for informational text else write  if it
is not.
1. newspaper
2. magazines
3. instructional manuals
4. fairy tales
5. autobiography

10. Assignment
Ask the students to bring dictionary.