Instructional Text

The instructive texts are instructions that are present every day in our daily lives, both in school and beyond. The very use of the technological means allowing us instructions require further management of this type of instructional texts. Instructional texts intended to guide procedures in detail, clear and precise to perform some activity whether simple or complex, according to two characteristics:

Guide on how to operate an apparatus or system including: manuals use of technological materials, fixing devices, etc.

They explain how to draw something from elements and processes, divided into the list of items or materials required and the procedure itself, developing instructions. For example: A recipe, such as knitting a sweater, etc.

 Features

The main features of instructional texts are:

1.     It requires special and distinctive format.

2.     Development of procedures composed of detailed steps that must be met to get a result. (Usually they are fixed sequences but sometimes it is possible to make changes).

3.     Clear language, direct and linear.

4.     Use graphic marks and numbers, asterisks or dashes to differentiate the series or sequence of steps.

5.     It can be accompanied with graphics, illustrations and / or drawings, according to the type of instruction to develop text. Applied to children / as in the early grades of primary education, the illustrations allow them greater guidance in the process.

                               example:

RECIPE FOR PLUM CAKE

Ingredients:

prunes, 3/4 kilo

sugar, 2 tablespoons

flour, 150 grams

milk, l cup

eggs, 3 units

butter

salt to taste

Preparation

1. Place milk, flour, eggs, salt and sugar in a bowl 2. Beat all right.

3. Allow to cool in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

4. Grease a baking dish with butter.

5.Colocar plums and cover with dough made earlier.

6. Add the sugar and put in the oven, as strong as possible, for 4 to 5 minutes.

7. Serve warm from the same source.

The instructional text aims to teach or guide the receptor in achieving certain action or carrying out of any activity. Plum cake: In this example, the instructions for the realization of a recipe displayed. These instructions are ordered (and in this case numbered) according to a chronological criterion. You should always follow the instructions step by step, without altering the order stipulated.

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Nota: En la siguiente clase realiza un texto instructivo en tu cuaderno en Inglés, recuerda checar el siguiente video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWeTNTg6m9c para reforzar la información sobre los textos instructivos. 

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