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Overview of Y2 Spring Term Part 1
NON-FICTION BOOKS

Truth to Teach (Source)

Heart concepts: Order, Creation

 God had clear purposes in mind when he began to create; those who create good
books have clear goals in mind too.

 To distinguish fiction and non-fiction books and explore the benefits and lay-out
of both

Way to Work (Means)

It might be good to choose a topic related to project or science so that non-fiction texts
relate to work in the classroom.

Alternatively, an author could be invited into school to talk about how to write a book.

1. Compare a non-fiction book with a storybook on a similar theme, e.g. Rainforest

Animals compared to ‘The Fantastic Flying Journey’ by Gerald Durrell. The latter
does teach about animals but it is essentially a storybook and is laid-out as such.

2. Show the non-fiction book. Ask the children if it is a storybook or an information

book. Establish the terms fiction and non-fiction interchanging them in the lesson
with the simpler terms respectively.

Establish how you can tell it is a non-fiction book: -

• the text being broken up into paragraphs arranged under a heading as
opposed to the story continuing until the start of the next chapter.

• the use of photographs and drawings, sometimes labelled, contrasting with
imaginative drawings of part of the story.

• the existence of a contents page and an index, and the absence of an index
in a storybook. The fiction book may have a contents page, giving the titles

of each chapter in the story.

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