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Year 4 English · Reading non-fiction · Lesson 10.4

Year 4 English: Finding and recording information in several sections

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10.4

Finding and recording information in several sections

Year 4
Retrieve information from several sections of a non-fiction text, using the headings and sub-headings to find it (RC3), Record the facts in a table, so that they can be compared (RC3)
Story. Amira is making a poster about bread for her class. She uses the sub-headings to find facts quickly, and she writes each fact in a table.

Long information texts are split into parts with headings and sub-headings. To retrieve a fact, use the heading that matches your question, and scan that part for the detail you need. When facts come from more than one section, record them in a table, so you can compare them easily.

Read the text in the box. Then answer the questions in exercise 10D. The table shows one way to record your facts.

Making a Loaf of Bread

Ingredients

Most bread is made from flour, water, yeast and salt. Flour is made by grinding wheat grains at a mill. Yeast is a tiny living fungus, and it is added to the flour and water so that the bread can rise.

Mixing and kneading

Mix the ingredients in a large bowl until they form a soft dough. Then knead the dough on a floured surface. Kneading makes the dough smooth and stretchy, so it can hold the gas made by the yeast.

Rising

Cover the dough and leave it in a warm place. The yeast feeds on the sugars in the flour and gives off gas. The gas makes the dough swell until it has doubled in size.

Baking and cooling

Shape the dough into a loaf and bake it in a hot oven until it turns golden brown. Let the loaf cool on a wire rack before you cut it, so that the middle can set.

SectionFact I recorded
RisingThe dough is left in a warm place to rise.
Baking and coolingThe loaf is left on a wire rack before it is cut.

Key ideas

  • Use the heading that matches the question, then scan that part.
  • To retrieve a fact is to find a fact that the text states.
  • When facts come from several sections, record them in a table to compare them.
  • Sub-headings name the smaller parts, so they help you find one fact quickly.
Worked example 10.4.1
Which heading would you read to find out why the dough is left in a warm place?

Method. Match the question to the heading.

  1. Think about the question. The question asks about a warm place, which is part of making the dough rise.
    warm place, rise
  2. Read the headings. The headings are Ingredients, Mixing and kneading, Rising and Baking and cooling.
    four headings
  3. Choose the heading. The Rising section tells you to leave the dough in a warm place.
    Rising
  4. Write the answer.
    Rising

Check. The Rising section names the warm place. ✓

Worked example 10.4.2
Name the two ingredients in the Ingredients section that are not water or flour.

Method. Read the list of ingredients carefully.

  1. Find the list. The first sentence lists flour, water, yeast and salt.
    flour, water, yeast, salt
  2. Remove flour and water. The two ingredients that are left are yeast and salt.
    yeast, salt
  3. Write the answer. Both are named in the first sentence of the section.
    yeast and salt
  4. Write the answer.
    yeast and salt

Check. Both are in the list of ingredients. ✓

Worked example 10.4.3
Record the stage in which the loaf turns golden brown.

Method. Look for the words golden brown, then find the heading above them.

  1. Find the words. The text says the loaf is baked until it turns golden brown.
    golden brown
  2. Find the heading. That sentence sits under the heading Baking and cooling.
    Baking and cooling
  3. Record the stage. Write the heading as the stage in your table.
    Baking and cooling
  4. Write the answer.
    Baking and cooling

Check. The heading tells you the stage. ✓

Watch out

Watch out: a heading may not give you the exact fact. Read the whole section under the heading before you record a fact in your table.

Exam tip

Grown-up tip. Ask your child to find one fact in the text using its heading, and then write it in a two-column table. Talk about why the table makes the facts easier to compare.

Exercise 10D  Practice: finding and recording facts

1
FWhat does the yeast give off as it feeds on the sugars in the flour?
2
FWhy is the loaf left on a wire rack before it is cut?
3
FWhat does kneading make the dough? Use the text.
4
FWhere is the dough left to rise?
5
FWhy are the stages of a process often written under their own sub-headings?
6
FCopy and complete this table. Write the answer for each stage from the text.
(a)(a) Mixing and kneading: what happens to the ingredients?
(b)(b) Rising: what happens to the dough?
(c)(c) Baking and cooling: what colour does the loaf become?
7
PSWhich two headings mention heat or warmth? Write the two headings.
8
PSA reader wants one fact about a single stage. Name two features that help them find that part quickly.
9
PSA reader wants to know what a picture in a leaflet shows. Choose caption, glossary or contents list.
10
PSWrite one fact about yeast from the Ingredients section, and one fact about what yeast does from the Rising section.
11
PSCopy the words after so in the Mixing and kneading section that tell why kneading helps the bread.
12
RExplain why sub-headings help a reader who needs facts from several sections.

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