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)