Find Out & Write About®

Teaching Ideas

Overview

With Find Out & Write About, children can research and write about a subject. You can use Find Out & Write About as non-fiction text in literacy work, or for topic work. It links reading and writing and focuses on reading comprehension and writing compositions. It offers a high level of support.

It is suitable for individual and group work, and offers differentiation as each book has two or three different levels, or 'books', of information. These cover the same topics with increasing levels of difficulty - so children with different abilities can work on the same topic at a suitable level.

Book 1:

• For children in the early stages of literacy
• Small chunks of text
• Listen
• Model for writing
• Good for developing the idea of the sentence

Book 2:

• For children with some literacy skills, but who will benefit from support
• 'Hear' button enables children to hear the text
• Children can click on individual words - so can read independently at their own level of pace/fluency
• Can use the keyboard as well as the Clicker Grid

Book 3:

• Not just a blank page
• Structure
• Contains key vocabulary
• Minimize grid
• Keyboard
• Encourages interpretation (starters)