How do you Feel?
A useful big book which focuses on a boy's feelings during the week that sees him starting a new school.
An alternative text to This Week.
By Liu Gillian
Published by Evans Brothers
ISBN 02375 18880

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This book, which is available as a big book, is modelled on The House that Jack built. It is an excellent resource for developing children's understanding of a sentence. The last page contains 9 lines of writing although it is still only one sentence.
Author: Marcia Vaughan
Illustrator: Ellen Giggenbach
Available from Kingscourt/McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-7901-0117-3

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This example of a factual recount can be used as an introduction Developing Early Writing (NLS Unit 9). This unit focuses on teaching the characteristics of a factual recount.

This recount tells of a visit to a fire station open day.

This book contains a strongly rhyming text about a hilarious tea party. It is an excellent book for making collections of rhyming words. Can be used as a starting point for modelling writing instructions. 
Author: Kaye Umansky
Illustrator: Margaret Chamberlain

Used by permission of The Random House Group Limited
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This simple explanation is a useful book for introducing pupils to a non-fiction text. It contains a contents and index page and labelled diagrams. Change can be used as a model in the whole class work on how to write labels,diagrams and extended captions. See the weekly plan on how this process may be developed throughout a week.

Heinemann
ISBN: 0-435-09459-9
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Life in a Shell
By Claire Craig

Poggy Frog’s Contest
Written by Jow Cowley
Illustrated by Anne Sulzer

Kites, Mimosa Publications
ISBN: 0-732-73663-3

This 2 in 1 Big Book contains Life in the Shell, an information book and Poggy Frog’s Contest These 2 books give you an opportunity to contrast and compare how information and fiction texts differ in the way they are written and presented.

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This Discovery World non-fiction text provides a simple model of how you can organise information about growing beans. It contains the non-fiction features of a contents page, an index and labels.

By Rhonda Jenkins
Heinemann Discovery World
ISBN: 0-435-09446-7

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Three Billy Goats Gruff Goat Facts Single User(PC)

This non chronological report is presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector. (7.9mb Download) Single User PC Version

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These printable resources provide a model for teaching recount. 'A visit to the Park" is a simple recount about a familiar activity. "The Rescue" is a recount of the rescue of some blackbird chicks. This contains added detail to make a recount more interesting. "Growing beans" contains photographs of a bean in various stages of development and can be used as a starting point for children to write their own recount.

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