Our Garden Diary
Levels 8/9 Yellow/Blue
Key learning Area Science and Social Studies
Theme Growth of Plants
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. garden, beans, flowers)
-- Proper nouns (e.g. Katie, Aunty Sue)
-- Pronouns (e.g. We, our, us)
-- Adjectivess (e.g. green, little)
-- Past tense verbs (e.g. dug, watered)