Find Out & Write About

Teaching Ideas

Making Notes

You can use Find Out & Write About to show how to or help children extract information from a piece of text and make notes:

• Edit the contents of a reading page. Activate a text box and ask children to pick out the most important facts/key words from the first sentence
• Delete the rest of the sentence
• Work through the rest of the sentences so you are left with a list of words
• Print out the list - children can use the notes to fill out brief notes into extended prose