Starter quiz
- What do we learn from reading information texts about an author?
- We learn about many aspects of an author's life ✓
- We read the author's stories
- We learn about the author's childhood ✓
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- What is the purpose of a heading in an information text?
- It summarises the text
- It tells us who or what the information text is about ✓
- It introduces a section
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- What does the introduction of an information text do?
- introduces the topic and engages the reader ✓
- goes into detail about specific aspects of the topic
- provides general information and outlines the text ✓
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- What is the purpose of a subheading?
- It tells you what the whole text is about
- It makes you laugh
- It tells you what a particular section of the text is about ✓
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- Order the following sections to show the structure of an information text about an author.
- 1⇔introduction
- 2⇔childhood and inspiration
- 3⇔jobs and books
- What is a personal response?
- expressing someone else's opinion
- expressing your own opinions, ideas or feelings ✓
- sharing facts
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Exit quiz
- Which country was Atinuke born in?
- Nigeria ✓
- United Kingdom
- Japan
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- What is Atinuke's writing mainly influenced by?
- her time at school in the UK
- African culture and her childhood ✓
- mythical creatures
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- Who was Roald Dahl's literary idol?
- Philip Pullman
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Beatrix Potter ✓
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- What inspired Roald Dahl to write 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'?
- He ate chocolate everyday
- He hated chocolate
- His boarding school was next door to the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory ✓
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- What job did Ibtihaj Muhammad do before becoming an author?
- She was a professional dancer
- She was a professional fencer ✓
- She was a professional singer
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- What does the book 'The Proudest Blue' celebrate?
- the hijab and the Islamic faith ✓
- oceans and rivers
- fencing and the Olympics
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Key learning points
- An information text about an author provides information about their life, e.g. childhood, inspiration, jobs and books.
- Atinuke is a Nigerian born author whose stories are inspired by African culture and traditional storytelling.
- Roald Dahl was a British author who wrote popular children’s literature containing imaginative and magical elements.
- Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American fencer and author who was inspired to write stories celebrating the Muslim identity.
- Developing a personal response to what we have read can inspire in writing our own information text.
Common misconception
Children may be unfamiliar with the meaning of some of the vocabulary involved in exploring these author's lives. E.g. 'immerse', 'boarding school', 'hijab'.
Allow opportunities for children to highlight any words they do not know the meaning of within each cycle of the lesson and explain the meaning (providing visual aids where appropriate) to support children in understanding each author's life.
Keywords
Information text - a form of non-fiction writing that provides true and factual information about someone or something
Author - the person responsible for crafting the words that make up a text
Personal response - expressing your own opinions, ideas or feelings
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