Hydroponic Tomatoes

　　Levels 20/21 Purple/Gold
　　Key learning Area Technology
　　Theme Growing Hydroponic Tomatoes

　　Title Juicy and Delicious
　　Text Type Narrative
　　Pages 2–9
　　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 (Page 2)
　　Complication: The character encounters a problem (Pages 3–8)
　　Resolution: The problem is solved (Page 8)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. Zac, bags, tomatoes)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. she, I, them)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. juicy, delicious, biggest)
　　‧Past tense verbs (e.g. walked, groaned, arrived)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. on the way home, on the path, at the farm)

　　Title Tasty Hydroponic Tomatoes
　　Text Type Exposition
　　Pages 10–16
　　Text Form Advertisement
　　Genre Non-fiction
　　Purpose To persuade by arguing one side of an issue

　　Text Structure
　　Statement of Position:Explains the writer’s point of view and previews the arguments (Page 10)
　　Series of Arguments: Describes each argument and lists them in order of importance (Pages 10–16)
　　Concluding Statement: Relates the position more forcefully to persuade the reader (Page 16)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. vitamins, greenhouses, gardens)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. us, they, them)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. biggest, tastiest, delicious)
　　‧Sensing verbs (e.g. believe, think)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. in greenhouses, in gardens, almost all year round)