PM Writing 1 Yellow/Blue 8/9 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)