"Spotlight on Fact" is a programme of non-fiction readers and support materials that teaches children aged 5-11 reading and writing tools for a real-life purposes. It matches the new National Literacy framework non- fiction flyers for schools and ICT guidance requirements. At the heart of the programme are 48 information books. These demonstrate how seven different types of non fiction text are written and presented: recount, report, procedure, explanation, persuasion, discussion, alphabetic and real text (primary source documents). There is one of each text type per year. The books fit all the cross-curricular requirements of the National Curriculum. Finally, each year's books reflects the theme chosen for that year, such as the seaside or our environment. Each year's provision has accompanying support material of a teacher's resource, writing frames, big books and a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains an ICT non fiction text, print and read-only, version of the teacher's resource, manipulable writing frames and electronic versions of the big books.
