Let's Look at Adverts by Elaine Canham
Next steps: begin to look at different information texts, for example instructions and advice, and discuss how these texts are different from fiction texts that they are currently reading.
Ideas | |
| 1. | Read pages 8-9. Discuss 'puffs' and 'pushes'. Find the words in the advertisements that make the product sound attractive, and the words that tell you what it is. Do the same thing for the advertisements on pages 12-13. |
| 2. | Ask pupils to scan the text and create questions, e.g. When was the first advertisement printed? Collate their questions to make a quiz, then ask pupils to answer the questions orally or in writing. |
| 3. | Together scan the pages and make a list of all the clues that show this is not a story. Read several paragraphs and notice which tense is used. When is the past tense used? Does the past tense mean it is a story? |
| 4. | After reading the book, ask pupils to explain to the class what advertising tries to do. Ask them to say what they will remember when they see advertisements in future. Use the pupils' ideas to make a list of advice. |
Series:
TreeTops Non-Fiction
Reading Stage:
TreeTops Stage 12
Book Band:
KS2 Y4 (P5) Grey