Next steps: look at different information texts and learn the difference between information, advice and instruction.
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| 1. | Ask pupils to read the Contents. Can they identify a page which will contain instructions? Can they find a personal account? Discuss two or three other headings and ask pupils to predict what they will find out on those pages. |
| 2. | Read pages 4-5 and page 30. Ask pupils to list points that give advice about discovering the past. Ask them to write advice for other children who want to know about the past. |
| 3. | Read 'How to make a mummy' on pages 20-21. Find sequencing words: first, now, etc. Find command words: wash, cut, etc. Ask pairs to discuss and write the instructions as numbered points. |
| 4. | Ask pupils to choose three or four items listed in the index. Ask them to look up each item and write a paragraph explaining in their own words what they have learned. |