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White Wolves Non Fiction
What the Romans did for us
Non-fiction literacy for primary school children.
- GenresChildrens
24 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2009
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August 28, 2013
‘What the Romans did for us’ is a non-fiction book that provides basic, yet essential information about the Romans and the impact of the Roman Empire on today’s way of life. The book provides a clearly written and well-presented text broken down into short sub-sections each with interesting and child-friendly facts for students learning about the Romans. The text is short overall with lots of brightly coloured images which strongly appeals to the imagination and attention of the struggling or non-motivated reader.
I would highly recommend this text as a resource for a guided reading or small group text to support learning about the Romans and/ or non-fiction texts which usually occurs in Year 3.
It could easily be used as part of a project about the Romans. For example, it could be left on display for children to look through to find and discuss facts with classmates as part of an organised lesson. It would be highly beneficial in small group guided reading to support knowledge about the Romans and non-fiction texts. This book would then easily support preparation for a Big Write activity about the Romans.
Due to the highly visual layout of the text and simple language used, this book would be most useful to promote inclusion for struggling readers, and children with various special educational needs (SEN) including language and literacy difficulties, global developmental delay, attention difficulties or even autism to mention a few. It may also prove beneficial to students entering school with English as an additional Language (EAL)to support integration.
Overall, this book is a great introduction to Roman life which draws children in, but would need to be supplemented with other teaching methods and materials on the Romans to develop a broader understanding of history.
I would highly recommend this text as a resource for a guided reading or small group text to support learning about the Romans and/ or non-fiction texts which usually occurs in Year 3.
It could easily be used as part of a project about the Romans. For example, it could be left on display for children to look through to find and discuss facts with classmates as part of an organised lesson. It would be highly beneficial in small group guided reading to support knowledge about the Romans and non-fiction texts. This book would then easily support preparation for a Big Write activity about the Romans.
Due to the highly visual layout of the text and simple language used, this book would be most useful to promote inclusion for struggling readers, and children with various special educational needs (SEN) including language and literacy difficulties, global developmental delay, attention difficulties or even autism to mention a few. It may also prove beneficial to students entering school with English as an additional Language (EAL)to support integration.
Overall, this book is a great introduction to Roman life which draws children in, but would need to be supplemented with other teaching methods and materials on the Romans to develop a broader understanding of history.
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