PM Writing 3 Silver/Emerald 24/25 Meteors

　　Meteors

　　Levels 24/25 Silver/Emerald
　　Key learning Area Science
　　Theme Meteor Showers and Astronomy

　　Title Shooting Stars
　　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 (Page 2)
　　Complication: The character encounters a problem (Pages 3–8)
　　Resolution: The problem is solved (Page 9)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. house, movie, Saturday)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. They, it, You)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. favourite, bright, orange)
　　‧Past tense verbs (e.g. followed, laughed)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. into the garden)
　　‧Time and sequence words (e.g. Suddenly)

　　Title How Meteors Are Formed
　　Text Type Exposition　　
　　Pages 10–16
　　Text Form Scientific Essay
　　Genre Non-fiction
　　Purpose To explain how or why something occurs

　　Text Structure
　　Identifying Statement: Tells what is to be explained (Page 10)
　　Explanation Sequence: Explains a series of events or cause and effect (Pages 11–15)
　　Summary Statement: Draws all the information together (Page 16)

　　Language Features
　　‧Nouns (e.g. comet, Earth, meteoroids)
　　‧Pronouns (e.g. it, they)
　　‧Adjectives (e.g. small, large)
　　‧Present tense verbs (e.g. passes, glow, fall)
　　‧Adverbs (e.g. brightly)
　　‧Adverbial phrases (e.g. towards the Earth)