Elements of Procedural Genre

D: What is the procedural genre?

• Procedural texts are "how-to" text. They teach you how to do something.
• Written with steps in sequential order
• Nonfiction

P: How do I read a procedural text?

• Read the whole text once to get the gist of the task/recipe/game/instructions.
• Pay attention to the steps and focus on the order.

C: When/why do read procedural texts?

• We read procedural texts to learn how to do something.

(13)  Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural Texts. Students understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents. Students are expected to:

(A)  interpret details from procedural text to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform procedures; and