Reading Non Fiction and Media Texts

Reading Non-fiction and Media Texts Teaching Resources is a 104 slide PowerPoint presentation with 12 worksheets and ten step by step lessons specifically designed to teach reading non-fiction and media texts at both KS3 and GCSE. This resource has been constructed with the four-part lesson plan in mind (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) and all lessons can be edited, adapted and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. English teachers can preview the Reading Non-fiction and Media Texts Teaching resource by clicking on the images at the bottom of the page.

The Reading Non-fiction and Media Texts lessons contain a range of skills and activities, including:

* What are non-fiction and media texts?

* How do audience and purpose affect non-fiction and media texts?

* How are fact and opinion used in media and non-fiction texts?

* Developing awareness of how rhetorical techniques can affect the reader

* Bias, rhetoric and exaggeration; Generalisations and counter arguments

* Presentational devices

* Comparing texts and exploring exam success