The Children's Farm
Levels 8/9 Yellow/Blue
Key learning Area Social Studies and Mathematics
Theme Urban Farms and Animals
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. class, farm, cow)
‧Proper nouns (e.g. Monday)
‧Pronouns (e.g. him, we)
‧Adjectives (e.g. big, red, good)
‧Past tense verbs (e.g. went, gave)