| 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 literacy 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 what 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 6 reinforce word, text and sentence-level skills and encourage the children to:
- Identify the features of recounted texts, such as sports reports and use these features in their own recounts.
- Read, follow, evaluate and write instructions (and evaluate their own writing).
- Develop skills in preparing for research quickly by reviewing what they already know, what they need to find out, the available sources of information (appraising them to check which are the most useful) and presenting their notes from different sources in an organised format
- Develop skills in scanning a printed or electronic text to find out what it is about, skimming it to find useful headings, phrases or sentences and using these as tools for summarising it
- Monitor their own understanding of a text and develop strategies to make sense of difficult texts
- 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 notes to produce connected prose
- Learn how writers record sources, and begin to do so in their own writing
- Understand how paragraphs are used in organising and sequencing information
- Read, write and evaluate letters for different audiences and purposes
- Develop awareness of the ways in which language can be used to influence opinion, and write persuasive texts in the form of letters, commentaries, arguments and advertisements.
- Evaluate and edit their own writing |
