Focus Non-Fiction is a collection of stimulating non-fiction texts that has been put together to meet the non-fiction requirements of the National Curriculum and of the Framework for Teaching English. Texts have been carefully chosen to interest and to challenge Key Stage 3 students, and have been arranged into sections that match the National Curriculum writing triplets to: imagine, explore, entertain; inform, explain, describe; persuade, argue, advise; analyse, review, comment. Each section contains a range of different texts, including autobiography, magazine articles, reviews, advertisements and reports. Also provided are routes through the sections to allow students to compare and contrast features of texts written for different purposes. Activities at the end of each section help students to understand the stylistic conventions of non-fiction text types and to use the texts in this collection as models for their own writing.

 

This book is part of a book series called New Windmills .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited .

This book has the following chapters:

Introduction for students

Introduction for teachers

Categorisation and focus for texts

Links between activities and the Literacy Framework

Section 1 - Writing to imagine, explore, entertain. Activities

Section 2 - Writing to inform, explain, describe. Activities

Section 3 - Writing to persuade, argue, advise. Activities

Section 4 - Writing to analyse, argue, advise. Activities

Section 5 - Questions comparing genres on the same theme