PM Writing 1 Yellow/Blue 8/9 The Walking Bus

　　Levels 8/9 Yellow/Blue
　　Key learning Area Health and Physical Well-being
　　Theme Walking to School

　　Text Type Narrative
　　Text Form Play
　　Genre Fiction
　　Purpose Entertains and instructs 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 (Pages 2–3)
　　Complication: The character encounters a problem (Pages 4–15)
Resolution: The problem is solved (Page 16)

　　Language Features

　　‧Common nouns (e.g. tyre, bus, car)
　　‧Proper nouns (e.g. Emma, Matthew)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. they, we)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. flat)
　　‧Past tense verbs (e.g. walk, looked)
　　‧Present tense verbs (e.g. look, go)