Infoactive is an ideal teaching tool for non-fiction skills in the Literacy Hour at Key Stage 1, with an emphasis on Year 1 teaching objectives.
24 core readers: Pack 1B: All Sorts of Things; The Ball, the Stick, the Plane and the Feather; Cut and Join; Find the Piece that Fits; Fins and Feathers; Habitats; Real or Imaginary; Traffic; What goes Together?; Will Wright.
Pack 2B: Crazy Weather; Cressida’s Classroom; Do People Eat Flowers?; Going to Grandma’s House; Houses; I Like This Park; Make a Paper Bird; My Garden; Our Plant Diary; Some Plants Have No Flowers; Make It Go; Why Does a Cat Have Whiskers?
These titles present a variety of information texts including instructional texts, signs, labels, captions and non-chronological reports.
Two Big Books: Crazy Weather : a non-fiction text which uses symbols, graphs and charts to depict a variety of weather situations – with stunning illustrations; All Sorts of Things: non-fiction text about the classification of living and non-living things, including work on labelling, alphabetical order and simple research skills.
InfoActive Teacher’s Notes B match each book to the Word, Sentence and Text Objectives of the National Literacy Framework. It provides a wealth of ideas for Shared, Guided Group and Individual work – plus over 40 Activity Masters with which to resource your lessons.
About the Author :
Steve Moline, who wrote the core books, is a leading figure in teaching non-fiction to children in Australia.
Barbara Tyler, who wrote the Teacher’s Notes, has extensive teaching experience at Key Stage 1 in England and is an experienced writer of materials for young children.
Review :
‘These books deserve to be popular for their clarity, inventiveness and common sense’
Tom Deveson, TES, on Infoactive A.
