Garden Tools



　　Levels 14/15 Green/Orange

　　Key learning Area Technology

　　Theme Tools



　　Text Type Recount

　　Text Form Diary

　　Genre Non-fiction

　　Purpose To retell and evaluate events and 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

　　•Nouns (e.g. leaves, trowels, branches)

　　•Pronouns (e.g. I, we)

　　•Adjectives (e.g. big, new, long)

　　•Past tense verbs (e.g. worked, pulled, dug)

　　•Time and sequence words (e.g. First, Next, Then)