Welcome back Year 10.

Reading Non-fiction
Texts
Learning Objectives
- To consider a range
of non-fiction texts.
 What is non fiction?

1) JOURNALISTIC TEXT
2) INFORMATIVE TEXT
Where have
3) (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL you come
across these
WRITING types?

Provide
4) TRAVEL WRITING examples.

5) EXTRACT FROM A DIARY

OR BLOG
6) A LETTER
Task

You are going to see a series of non

fiction texts.

You will have 6 minutes to complete the

tasks attached to each image.

If you do not complete the questions in

the set time – you will complete after
lesson.
Newspaper Front Page
1) Write down the
headline.
2) How does the picture
link to the headline?
3) How has the paper
used colour?
4) What is the sub
heading?
Webpage
1) What information
does this provide?
2) How has the
webpage used
colour?
3) What do the
images show?
4) What is the
purpose of this
webpage?
Recipe Book
1) What information
does this provide?
2) How colour been
used?
3) What do the
images show?
4) How is the
information
presented?
“absolutely great”

Travel Review
Reviewed 2 August 2011 we have stayed here
before when it was owned by Travelodge.
Some of the same team are still there and just
as friendly and helpful as ever. Whenever we 1) What information
have stayed in the past we have always ate at
the Toby Carvery next door. Again they didn't
does this provide?
How is the
fail to impress either, great food and service as
2)
always but we got a very pleasant suprise - The
Toby now does a full cooked breakfast. information
result !!! this was the icing on the cake for us.
It was buy 1 get one free. so we got 2 presented?
breakfasts for £4.95 - bargain. You need to pay
extra for tea and coffee which are £1.95 each 3) Where might you
but they are refillable. Much better than the
Travelodge breakfast bag. Breakfast was great
find this?
How has this
and staff really helpful and friendly. Will stay
again. 4)

gotten the
Room Tip: ask for rooms above the disabled
rooms - they are bigger than the rest !! readers’
Stayed July 2011, travelled with family
attention?
 Focusing on audience, purpose
and format.
For each piece of non – fiction you must
now comment on the PAF (purpose,
audience and format).
Text PURPOSE AUDIENCE FORMAT

The Newspaper

The Webpage

The Recipe Book

The Travel
Review
 TAPL
•
Newspaper- To inform ( Informative)
(Audience 16+) Layout ( Bullet points,
columns, Images, captions bold, sub headings)
•
Webpage- Descriptive/Informative /
Instructive( dependent on the content)
(5+) Audience – Layout ( Pictures, animation,
captions, links to share, hyperlink, videos)
Recipe – Instructive – 16+ (Audience) Layout
(pictures, bullet points, numbers, paragraphs)