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)