There are three main categories of text: expository texts which explain or inform on a topic, narrative texts which tell a story or describe an event, and argumentative texts which try to persuade the reader of a particular viewpoint.

1. Discussion Text
Explanatory Text Type Instructional / Procedural Texts
Persuasion Texts
Poetry Text Recount Text

2. 1. Expository texts
2. Narrative texts, and
3. Argumentative texts.