Go Facts - Animals: Teaching Guide

Part of the series Go Facts - Animals.

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Go Facts is the essential, nonfiction literacy series for your whole school.

Go Facts sets deliver the clear, exciting and easy-to-read nonfiction your students need. As they move up through the reading levels, your students are guided from their own experiences to the wider world around them. Each Go Facts title is a model of coherent, integrated topic development, with concepts and ideas supported by fact boxes, photographs and illustrations. Go Facts introduces the structures and conventions of nonfiction writing, presenting models that are explored via activities in the Teaching Guides (sold separately).
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Go Facts Animals - Teaching Guide

This Teaching Guide contains teaching notes on reading nonfiction and writing nonfiction for each title in the Go Facts - Animals series. The lessons are structured in a way so you can implement the teaching of reading and writing information reports systematically. There are two blackline masters for each book, as well as six others which can be used for all the books. The teaching plan is flexible, allowing numerous possibilities for practice of each step of the writing process. Throughout, there is strong teacher support including detailed notes showing how to actively model strategies in each step of the writing process.

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Series Information

• Subject: Non-Fiction, Science
• School Level*: Lower Primary
• Reading Level: 20-21
• Reading Age*: 7+ yrs
• Word Count: 900-1200
• Broadband: E-G

*Please note: School Level and Reading Age are a guide only.

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About the Series

The books in Go Facts - Animals make information accessible in content, layout, language and writing style. This allows the reader to participate actively and concentrate on the learning opportunities offered by the text. It also allows young readers to internalise the structures and conventions of nonfiction writing for their own use. The large photographs can be used to bring out readers' background knowledge and interests. The nonfiction elements that are modelled in this Go Facts set include Information reports, Captions and Labels, Visual literacy and Paragraphs.

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Also Available in the 'Go Facts - Animals' Series

Go Facts - Animals Set

Titles in the Go Facts - Animals Set

• Go Facts Animals - Reptiles
• Go Facts Animals - Birds
• Go Facts Animals - Insects
• Go Facts Animals - Mammals

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