| Developing Literacy: Nonfiction is a series of seven photocopiable activity books for literacy development. Each book provides a range of nonfiction reading and writing activities, and supports the teaching of reading and writing skills at text, sentence and word levels.
The reading activities develop the children's study and research skills (reading for a purpose, understanding and interpreting, and making use of wht they have read) and provide models on which they can base their own writing.
The writing activities concentrate on the purpose of a text, the audience for whom it is written and the context in which it is to be read, and encourage the children to be aware of these considerations when they write.
The activities in Developing Literacy: Nonfiction Year 5 reinforce work, text and sentence-level skills and encourage the children to:
- Develop an awareness of the purposes of opening sentences
- Select the key phrases and sentences which convey information and opinions.
- Develop an awareness of the ways in which electronic texts are designed to be read
- Develop skills in quickly preparing for research by reviewing what they already know, what they need to find out, the available sources of information (and appraising them to check which are the most useful) and presenting their notes from different sources in an organised format
- Scan a printed or electronic text to find out what it is about, skim it and find useful headines, phrases or sentences and use these as tools for summarising it
- Monitor their own understanding of a text and develop strategies to make sense of difficult tasks
- Develop skills in marking extracts in a way which helps them to make notes
- Write notes quickly and efficiently in a way which is suitable for their purpose and fill out these notes to produce connected prose
- Understand how paragraphs are used in organising and sequencing information
- Develop and awareness of the significant features and conventions of different types of nonfiction text and how they are suited to the purpose of the text (instructions, explanatory texts, arguments, discussions, non-chronological reports, newspaper reports and persuasive texts, including advertisements) and to use the features and conventions in their own writing
- Write summaries of sentences, paragraphs and chapters. |
