Year 2 Non-fiction Unit 3 – Information texts

Information texts (4 weeks)

Overview

• Pose questions and record these in writing, prior to reading. Investigate non-fiction books/ICT texts on similar themes to show that they can give different information and present similar information in different ways. Use contents pages/menus and alphabetically ordered texts, for example dictionaries, encyclopaedias, indexes, directories, registers. Locate definitions/explanations in dictionaries and glossaries. Scan texts to find specific sections, for example key words or phrases, subheadings, and skim-read title, contents page, illustrations, chapter headings and sub-headings to speculate what a text might be about and evaluate its usefulness for the research in hand.
• Close read text to gain information, finding the meaning of unknown words by deducing from text, asking someone, or referring to a dictionary or encyclopaedia.
• Make simple notes from non-fiction texts, for example key words and phrases, page/web references, headings, to use in subsequent writing.
• Write simple information texts incorporating labelled pictures and diagrams, charts, lists as appropriate. Design a simple website.
• Draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding and planning what and how to write.
• Maintain consistency in non-narrative, including purpose and tense.
• Create an alphabetically ordered dictionary or glossary of special interest words.

1998 Framework objectives covered:

Year 2, Term 3: T13, T14 and T15 fact/fiction/non-fiction; pose and record questions, find answers by reading; use contents pages and alphabetically ordered texts, for example dictionaries, encyclopaedias, indexes, directories, registers; T16 and T18 scan texts to find specific information; evaluate usefulness of text for its purpose; T20 write information texts using reading as a model.

Year 2, Term 2: T18 and T20 locate definitions/explanations in dictionaries and glossaries; create dictionary/glossary of special interest words.