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The Informazing Resource Book
The first visual literacy resource book, written by Rachel Griffiths and Margaret Clyne, and closely integrated with David Drew's Informazing series.
Includes practical classroom ideas for every Informazing book.
Contains units of work you can photocopy for classroom use.
Contents
The Informazing classroom
What is Informazing?
Overview charts
Part 1: Reading and writing nonfiction
Chapter 1: Informazing: learning and teaching
Children are actively involved
Children learn from each other
Children make connections across subject areas
Children are able to experiment
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Reading and writing across the curriculum
Reading
Writing
Transferring information into another style or form
Presenting new information in another style or form
Working with nonfiction conventions
Talking
Taking time to talk using the big books
Children talking about their own work
The science program
Observing
Experimenting
Classifying
Mathematics: measuring, calculating and comparing
Arts and crafts
Problem solving, puzzles and games
Reading the book and solving the puzzles
Making up puzzles
Research
Constructing questions
Sources of information
"Is that really true?"
Involving families
Chapter 3: Classroom organization
Access to books
Evaluation
Evaluating oral language
Observing children
Work samples
Part 2: Working with Informazing
Chapter 4: Prehistory
Millions of Years Ago
Chapter 5: Animal puzzles
Mystery Monsters
Hidden Animals
Skeletons
Chapter 6: More animal puzzles
Animal Clues
Creature Features
I Spy
Chapter 7: Animal facts
The Book of Animal Records
What Did You Eat Today?
Animal Acrobats
Chapter 8: Life cycles
The Life of the Butterfly
Caterpillar Diary
Tadpole Diary
Chapter 9: The body
Body Maps
Body Facts
Chapter 10: Puzzles about the physical world
Animal, Plant or Mineral?
What Is It?
Chapter 11: Space
Somewhere in the Universe
Postcards from the Planets
Small Worlds
The Gas Giants
Chapter 12: The future
Earth in Danger
Part 3: Black line masters (may be photocopied)
Part 4: Index
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