Session 16

Focus objective

• To use information from an information source and from a fiction text to make a poster

Key teaching approaches

• Shared reading
• Collaborative writing

Read the author's note and show the children information about Doctor Barnardo and his work. Give the children copies of information from the following website page, or encyclopaedias and information books, and ask them to work with a partner to make a poster advertising Doctor Barnardo's homes for destitute boys: 'No destitute child ever turned away' http://www.barnardos.org.uk/who_we_are/history.htm