The Walking Bus
Levels 8/9 Yellow/Blue
Key learning Area Health and Physical Well-being
Theme Walking to School
Text Type Narrative
Text Form Play
Genre Fiction
Purpose Entertains and instructs 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 4–15)
Resolution: The problem is solved (Page 16)
Language Features
‧Common nouns (e.g. tyre, bus, car)
‧Proper nouns (e.g. Emma, Matthew)
‧Pronouns (e.g. they, we)
‧Adjectives (e.g. flat)
‧Past tense verbs (e.g. walk, looked)
‧Present tense verbs (e.g. look, go)