INFORMATIONAL OR FACTUAL TEXTS Informational or factual texts are materials that provide significant information or details about a particular person, place, thing, event, issue and the like. They vary in terms of types, signal questions and signal words. Presented below are the types of informational or factual texts and their purposes/descriptions, signal questions and signal words. Features (Signal Words) Type Sequence Key Structures Purpose (Signal Questions) (Thisius, n.d.) Describes or • What presents statements, statements, items, events events or or steps are items in listed? order, and/or . Do they enumerates happen in procedures or this order? steps in doing • Do they something always happen in this order? • First Second Next Then • Before After Finally Following • Not long after Now • Soon Sources: Illinois State University (n.d.) and Simeoneau, C., Orcutt, K. & Konrade, T. (n.d.).​