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1 Let's look together
A story can tell us about imagined events. An information book tells us facts about a subject.
Listen to this fact: 'A robin is a bird. It has feathers and a beak.' The heading Birds helps us know what the page is about.
Heading: BirdsA robin has feathers.A robin has a beak.
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I want to find out about birds. The heading Birds helps me choose the page. I find two facts there.
3 Your turn
Name one thing the robin has, using the information above.
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Let's check together
Feathers or a beak. Both are stated in the text.
4 Try it away from the page
Look at a real information book with an adult. Find a heading and a labelled picture. Compare it with a storybook.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Adult reading. This short excerpt is an introduction; full books, fairy tales and traditional tales should be shared across the year. Use properly licensed texts.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Enjoy, discuss and retell stories, poems and non-fiction read aloud.
Explain vocabulary, find information, infer and predict with evidence.