Developing reading preferences in Year 4 through text recommendations | English

Starter quiz

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What genre is the following text likely to be in?
- biography
- fantasy ✓
- non-fiction
- historical fiction
Match the following forms to their definitions.
- instruction manual
  
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  a text providing step-by-step guidance for using a product ✓
- review
  
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  evaluation of a book's content, style, and quality ✓
- website
  
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  a digital platform with web pages with information ✓
- e-mail
  
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  electronic messages sent and received through the internet ✓
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Who is the author of the following text?
- 'Tim Probert' ✓
What does a humorous text usually contain?
- relatable characters ✓
- a sad, depressing plot
- wordplay, puns and witty language ✓
- a positive, affirming plot ✓
- formal language
A ______ community is a group of readers who read, share and discuss their reading experiences with one another.
- 'reading' ✓
Readers can make text recommendations when ...
- sharing personal favourites or recent text discoveries ✓
- seeking or offering reading suggestions for specific genres or topics ✓
- their audience has no interest in reading at the moment
- they insist on someone reading the text

Q1: Fortunately the Milk, Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Q3: Lightfall, Tim Probert, HarperAlley