Author Description

This well-known and accessible guide to using children's information books in schools has been revised and updated. The author has taken account of the National Literacy Strategy requirement. The book deals with the basic difficulty children have with finding out', and the reasons they find informative reading difficult. Bobbie Neate shows why reading for information is different to reading stories, she also deals with children's problems in finding material within books and why it can be hard to teach children how to use traditional study skills. She shows how to teach children to survey books: how to set up good questions; and how to really read for meaning.