A Picnic with Dad
Levels 11/12 Blue/Green
Key learning Area Technology
Theme Food Preservation
Text Type Recount
Text Form Personal Recount
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. picnic, backpack, sandwiches)
‧Proper nouns (e.g. Saturday, Dad)
‧Pronouns (e.g. I, we)
‧Adjectives (e.g. fresh, hot)
‧Past tense verbs (e.g. went, made, rode)