| 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 activities are designed to be carried out in the time allocated to independent work and incorporate strategies that encourage independent learning - for example, ways in which children can evaluate their own work or that of a partner.
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.
Most children will be able to carry out the activities on their own, but it is assumed that an adult will read the instructions to or with the younger children. |
