Levels 11/12 Blue/Green
Key learning Area Science
Theme Animals
Text Type Narrative
Text Form Story
Genre Fiction
Purpose To entertain and/or instruct readers by telling a series of events with a problem and a solution
Text Structure Orientation: The main character is introduced in a setting of time and place (Pages 2–3) Complication: The character encounters a problem (Pages 4–12) Resolution: The problem is solved (Page 14) Coda: Concluding remarks (Page 16)
Language Features
Common nouns (e.g. bear, cave, river)
Pronouns (e.g. he, his, They)
Adjectives (e.g. big, brown, angry)
Past tense verbs (e.g. buzzed, jumped, flew)
An Aesop's Fable
Retold by Annette Smith
Illustrations by Pat Reynolds