BIG TALK - INDIA - INFORMATION TEXTS

The past few days we have concentrated on information texts about India. Each member of 4G has chosen a different aspect of life in India, ranging from food to festivals, and has started to develop an Information Webpage on their chosen topic.

Your BIG Talk homework is to show your unfinished webpage to someone at home and talk to them about your topic. Explain what you have found out and what more you would like to include. Also explain the different features of information texts and where you have used them on your webpage. Remember that your webpage is a work in progress and you can still edit and improve what you have produced!

Information Texts

We have just begun a new unit on Information Texts. Can you identify some of the features of information texts? Look at this example taken from an information book on India for some ideas to start with.

We also discussed the best way of searching for the information you need in a book. How do the Contents and Index pages help us?