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Overview of Y2 Spring Term Part 1
A PAGE FROM A NON-FICTION BOOK

Truth to Teach (Source)

Heart concepts: Order, Servanthood

 God’s creation reveals his love of order and wise arrangement, and being made in his
image, we too can display information in an orderly way so that it serves the reader.

 Using non-fiction books to gather information

Way to Work (Means)

1. Show the insert from a cutlery drawer or a tool box. Discuss the way it is ordered.
Establish that it helps us find more quickly the piece of cutlery we are looking for.
It serves us and anyone else in the house.

2. Show a typical page from a non-fiction book, either enlarged so that everyone can
see it or A4 size, so that the children can have one to look at.
Discuss the lay-out. (Paragraphs with sub-headings, labelled diagram)

Have different children read aloud a paragraph at a time. Note: -

• Introductory paragraph – general sentences about e.g. bones.
Explanation of why people have them.

• Facts organised under appropriate sub-headings. Individual sentences
are organised into the right paragraph.
• The writing is linked with the drawing by ruled arrows.

3. Talk about why the author laid the page out like this. (It serves the reader.)

Compare to the tool box or cutlery drawer. (Order, accessibility)

Ask some factual questions and ask the children to point to the place where the
answer is to be found.

• How many little bones make up the spine?
• What do the ribs protect?
• What does the design of a person’s skeleton show about God?

• Which bones do people use when they open and close their mouths?

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