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New Literacy Framework Units
Text: How to Make Chocolate Crispy Cakes
The How to Make Chocolate Crispy Cakes recipe card can be down loaded free from the resource area of the Literacy Matters website. It can be used with Unit 1 of the Developing Early Writing document.
Text: Fun Things To Make And Do
This book is an excellent text for teaching the structure and feature of instructional text. A good alternative book to Making Puppets.
Author Rosie Casselden
Published by Discovery World, available from Hienemann Education
ISBN 04350 98144
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Text: Remembrance Day Unit
Literacy Matters

How to use the internet to find soldiers who died in WW1


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Text: Keeping Tadpoles
This big book non-fiction text contains examples of both explanation and instructional text features. 'Keeping Tadpoles' could be used as part of a science topic (Unit 2b)

Author: Jim Foster
Publisher: Heinemann (Discovery World)
ISBN: 0-435-09832-2

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Text: Growing Frogs
This narrative text, which recounts one child's experience of collecting and growing tadpoles, also contains examples of explanation text. You can contrast the use of the present tense for narrative and recount and the present tense for explanation and instruction.

Author: Vivian French
Illustrator: Alison Bartlett
Walker Books
ISBN: 0-7445-7819-1

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Text: Butterflies Unit
'Butterflies' is a printable resource that contains examples of both non-chronological report and explanation texts. You can use it in two of the non-fiction units from the new framework. It also comes with pictures of the four stages of the butterfly life cycle and arrows to create a flowchart.

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Text: Xmas Card
Print and make your own Christmas Cards

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Text: Butterflies Unit
'Butterflies' is a printable resource that contains examples of both non-chronological report and explanation texts. You can use it in two of the non-fiction units from the new framework. It also comes with pictures of the four stages of the butterfly life cycle and arrows to create a flowchart.

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Text: Goat Facts
Three Billy Goats Gruff Goat Facts Single User(PC)

This non chronological report is presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector. (7.9mb Download) Single User PC Version

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