Functional Skills English: Text Type Sorting Activity | 20 Book Covers + Answer Sheet

Functional Skills English – Recognising 5 Different Text Types

Help learners develop their understanding of different text types with this practical, visual and engaging Functional Skills English resource!

This resource includes 20 book covers designed to help learners recognise and categorise five different text types:

Instruct – texts that explain how to do something.

Explain – texts that explain how or why something happens.

Describe – texts that provide details about a person, place, object or event.

Persuade – texts that aim to convince the reader.

Inform – texts that provide facts and information.

What’s included?

20 book covers – 4 examples for each of the 5 text types.

Text-type headers to help learners organise the book covers into the correct categories.

An answer sheet for checking responses and supporting independent learning.