Starter quiz
- What is Lulu very interested in learning about in the story 'Lulu Gets a Cat'?
- plants
- dinosaurs
- cats ✓
- chickens
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- What do we call the name of a book?
- author
- illustrator
- title ✓
- illustration
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- What is a non-fiction book?
- a type of fairy tale
- a poetry book
- a book that contains real information ✓
- a book that contains made-up characters
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- How can you find out more information about a topic?
- Read a non-fiction book. ✓
- Listen to music and remember the words.
- Use the internet on a computer. ✓
- Sing and dance to nursery rhymes.
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- What things does Lulu decide to do to teach herself about cats?
- Go to the library. ✓
- Watch films about cats.
- Pretend to be a cat.
- Practise looking after her toy cat. ✓
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- Match the following keywords to their definitions.
- question⇔a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer ✓
- fact⇔something that is known to be true or proved ✓
- opinion⇔a personal view about something ✓
Exit quiz
- Lulu teaches herself how to look after a cat by ...
- asking her friends all about cats.
- singing songs about cats.
- reading non-fiction books about cats. ✓
- looking at pictures of cats.
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- Non-fiction texts contain ...
- real information. ✓
- made-up characters.
- poems.
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- A fact ...
- asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark.
- is something that is known to be true or proved. ✓
- is a personal view about something.
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- Match the following key terms to their examples.
- fact⇔Young cats are called kittens. ✓
- opinion⇔I like cats. ✓
- word⇔cats ✓
- Identify a fact about cats sleeping.
- Cats can sleep up to 16 hours a day. ✓
- Cats like to hunt for their food outside.
- Make sure to refill your cat's water bowl every day.
- I like it when my cat sleeps on my bed.
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- Match the non-fiction text headings to the facts you would find in these sections.
- Feeding⇔Cats need to eat every day to stay healthy and strong. ✓
- Sleeping⇔Cats like to sleep in lots of different places around the house. ✓
- Playing⇔Kittens spend more time playing than older cats. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The contents page can help direct you to a particular topic, such as 'feeding'.
- Non-fiction books have photographs, captions and headings to make the information easier to understand.
- Non-fiction books teach information about a topic, such as how to care for a cat or kitten.
- Re-listening to or re-reading a page from a non-fiction book helps to retain and recall facts.
Common misconception
Pupils may be unable to read the non-fiction book themselves due to their current phonics knowledge.
Before Task A, read the two pages to the children and discuss what we have learnt first. For Task B, you may wish to answer the questions collaboratively, modelling the strategies and reading only that section of text.
Keywords
Non-fiction - a genre of text which presents real events, information or knowledge
Fact - something that is known to be true or proved
Information - facts learned about something or someone
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