Levels 8/9 Yellow/Blue
Key learning Area Science and Social Studies
Theme Growth of Plants
Text Type Recount
Text Form Diary
Genre Non-fiction
Purpose To retell and evaluate events or experiences
Text Structure Orientation: Provides information about who, where and when (Pages 2–3) Sequence of Events: Presents events in chronological order (Pages 4–15) Personal Comment: Evaluates the events that took place (Page 16)
Language Features
Common nouns (e.g. garden, beans, flowers)
Proper nouns (e.g. Katie, Aunty Sue)
Pronouns (e.g. We, our, us)
Adjectivess (e.g. green, little)
Past tense verbs (e.g. dug, watered)
By Heather Hammonds
Photographs by Lyz Turner-Clark
Illustrations by Racel Tonkin