LOOKING BACK DIRECTIONS: Below are the different text types and their purpose. Write the correct text type in the blank before the number as described by its purpose. Classification Explanation Enumeration Time Order Factual Text 1. To explain how and why something happens 2. Sorts items into categories according to their commonalities 3. Presents ideas by listing or enumerating kinds, characteristics, classes etc, 4. Puts ideas in the order they happened. 5. Text types that inform, instruct and based on facts lo