French: Encyclopedia

Learning Objectives:

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Explain organisational features of texts, including alphabetical order, layout, diagrams and captions.

Writing Opportunities

Strand 9: Draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding and planning what and how to write (e.g. writing in the style of an encyclopedia).

This book features in the following series: Rigby Star Quest, Starquest .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 24 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited .