Strand Tracker: Non-Fiction Objectives. The National Literacy Strategy.

These materials aim to help teachers make explicit links between teaching in the Literacy Hour and in the rest of the curriculum. The materials map teaching objectives from England's National Literacy Strategy's (NLS) Framework for Teaching to various text types and lists NLS resources which can be used to support teaching and learning. Text types outlined in the materials are: recount; non-chronological report; instructions; explanation; persuasion; discussion; and dictionaries and other alphabetically ordered texts. Non-fiction skills outlined in the materials are: locating information; note-making; organizational features; recording information; and critical literacy. (NKA)