PM Writing 4 Ruby 27 An Alien World

　　Levels 27 Ruby
　　Key learning Area The Arts
　　Theme Science fiction

　　Title The Tune of the Tuilps
　　Text Type Narrative
　　Pages 2–9
　　Text Form Story
　　Genre Fiction
　　Purpose To entertain and/or instruct 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 4–8)
　　Resolution:The problem is solved (Page 9)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. communicator, mission, tendrils)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. her, it, they, their, he)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. newly discovered, tulip-like)
　　‧Past tense verbs (e.g. asked, stepped)
　　‧Adverbs (e.g. swiftly, suddenly, pleadingly)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. in a mass of tightly wound purple tendrils)
　　‧Time and sequence words (e.g. It was the year 2097)　

　　Title Reading Science Fiction
　　Text Type Discussion
　　Pages 10–16
　　Text Form Essay
　　Genre Non-fiction
　　Purpose To examine more than one side of an issue

　　Text Structure
　　Opening Statement: Outlines the issue (Page 10)
　　Arguments 'For' and 'Against': Includes evidence in support of and against the issue (Pages 11–15)
　　Concluding Statement: Summary of the writer's opinion (Page 16)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. authors, dimension, reality)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. it, their, they)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. exciting, advanced, believable)
　　‧Sensing verbs (e.g. imagine, enjoy, like)
　　‧Adverbs (e.g. usually, often)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. in the future, in space)
　　‧Conjunctions/Text connectives (e.g. while, but, or)