Book Shelves

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise sorting a selection of non-fiction books on different curriculum topics into matching groups by their content and provided information.
The class can identify and explain how to tell whether some example sentences have been taken from a fiction or a non-fiction text by their matching content and vocabulary.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise sorting a selection of non-fiction books on different curriculum topics into matching groups by their content and provided information
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify sentences that have been taken from either fiction or non-fiction books, a set of cards to select and sort different non-fiction books into groups by their matching topics and a worksheet to group a range of non-fiction books that can match different curriculum topics.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort a a selection of non-fiction books on different curriculum topics into matching groups.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to use different reading skills to access information on a range of topics that feature in non-fiction information books. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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