Each fully photocopiable book in the DEVELOPING SCIENCE LANGUAGE series will be split into around ten 6-8 page 'units', each hitting a significant science curriculum topic. Content will include aspects of all the UK curricula, with references indicating which topics occur in which documentation. Each unit will comprise of: -a piece of information text aimed at 6 year olds, with key vocabulary highlighted -two comprehension activites based on the text (one activity differentiated at two levels) -one or more fun activites to reinforce the key words, such as completing a word search or labelling a diagram. 'DSL:Materials 10-11'will address the 'chemistry' topics by the curricula at KS2/P4-7,using the QCA 'Science of Work' units for Y5and Y6 as a more detailed guide. To this will be added appropriate content from the other UK science curriculum documents, in particular the new Scottish 5-14 guidelines on Environmental Studies. Photocopiable science information texts appropriate to target age group. Differentiated comprehensions - credible literacy. Fully-photocopiable activities to develop science literacy: comprehension tasks and word games. Highlights and teaches key science vocabulary in context.

 

This book is part of a book series called Developing Science Language .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 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.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Scholastic .

William Hartley has many years of experience in writing materials for primary age pupils. He is a member of the team of examiners responsible for producing test papers for Key Stages 1 and 2. He wrote our companion titles in the Have a Go Maths Tests series.