My school
Levels 2/3 Magenta / Red
Key learning Area Social Studies / Health and Physical Well-being
Theme Family / Confidence
Text Type Description
Genre Non-fiction
Purpose To describe the characteristics of people, places and things
Text Structure
Introduction: Informs the reader about the subject being described(Pages 2-3)
Characteristics: Describes details about the subject(Pages 4-15)
Evaluation: Provides a personal comment about the subject(Pages 16)
Language Features
-- Key high frequency words: Here, is, my/My, the, a, big
-- key sentence structures for Emergent writing:
Three simple sentence structures
■ Here is my/the...
■ It is a big...
■ My...is big.