P62 Show an understanding of how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how.

T1 through shared reading:
To recognise printed and handwritten words in a variety of settings, e.g. stories, notes, registers, labels, signs, notices, letters, forms, lists, directions, advertisements, newspapers
That words can be written down to be read again for a wide range of purposes
To understand and use correctly terms about books and print: book, cover, beginning, end, page, line, word, letter, title
To track the text in the right order, page by page, left to right, top to bottom; pointing while reading/telling a story, and making one-to-one correspondences between written and spoken words

T11 through shared writing:
To understand that writing can be used for a range of purposes, e.g. to send messages, record, inform, tell stories
To understand that writing remains constant, i.e. will always ?say? the same thing
To distinguish between writing and drawing in books and in own work
To understand how writing is formed directionally, a word at a time
To understand how letters are formed and used to spell words
To apply knowledge of letter/sound correspondences in helping the teacher to scribe, and re-reading what the class has written

P62 Show an understanding of how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how.

T17 Use terms ?fiction? and ?non-fiction?, nothing some of their differing features, e.g. layout, titles, contents page, use of pictures, labeled diagrams

T18 Read non-fiction books and understand that the reader doesn?t need to go from start to finish but selects but selects according to what is needed

T25 (through follow up work only) Assemble information from own experience, e.g. food, pets; to use simple sentences to describe, based on examples from reading; to write simple non-chronological reports; and to organize in lists, separate pages, charts

T17 Recognise that non-fiction books on similar themes can give different information and present similar information in different ways

T19 Identify simple questions and use text to find answers. To locate parts of text that give particular information including labeled diagrams and charts, e.g. parts of a car, what pets eat, clothes that keep us warm

T21 (through follow up work only) Use the language and features of non-fiction texts, e.g. labeled diagrams, captions for pictures, to make class books, e.g. ?What We Know About??, ?Our Pets?;

T22 (through follow up work only) Write own questions prior to reading for information and to record answers, e.g. as lists, a completed chart, extended captions for display, a fact file on IT Use secondary sources to find out about animals Learn that information exists in a variety of forms

Use secondary sources to find out about animals

Learn that information exists in a variety of forms

T14 Pose questions and record these in writing, prior to reading non-fiction to find answers

T15 Use a contents page and index to find way about text

T16 Scan a text to find specific sections, e.g. key words or phrases, subheadings

T17 Skim- read title, contents page, illustrations, chapter headings and sub-headings, speculate what a book might be about

T18 Evaluate the usefulness of a text for its purpose

T19 (through follow up work only) Make simple notes from non-fiction texts, e.g. key words and phrases, page references, headings, to use in subsequent writing

T21 (through follow up work only) Write non-chronological reports based on structure of known texts, e.g. There are two sorts of x?; They live in x?; the A?s have x?; but the B?s etc, using appropriate language to present, sequence and categorise ideas

Use secondary sources to find out about animals

To recognise some simple characteristics of animals and plants

Learn to search for information held on a CD-ROM

T17 Understand the distinction between fact and fiction; to use terms ?fact?, ?fiction? and ?non-fiction? appropriately

T18 Notice differences in the style and structure of fiction and non-fiction writing

T19 Locate information, using contents, index, headings, sub-headings, page nos., bibliographies

T20 Compare the way information is presented, e.g. by comparing a variety of information texts including IT-based sources

T21 Read information passages, and identify main points or gist of text, e.g. by noting or underlining key words or phrases, listing the 4 or 5 key points covered

T17 ?Scan? indexes, directories and IT sources, etc. to locate information quickly and accurately

T18 Locate books by classification in class or school libraries

T24 (through follow up work) Make alphabetically ordered texts ? use information from other subjects, own experience, or derived from other information books, e.g. a book about building materials, sports