Health and Understanding UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND
Predominantly nonfiction, these books explore a range of health topics that are related to, and required for, a healthy lifestyle. Sensitive health issues employ a fictional style to make the information more accessible to students. Health and Understanding is a literacy-based series that helps teachers address these health issues during the last three years of primary school.
Health and Understanding Set
Active lifestyles Endorsed by:
Reading Age Student Books Big Books IWB CD-ROM Teaching Guide 8 +
Personal health choices 8 + Growth and development
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Structure of the series
The series consists of three strands that focus on different aspects of a healthy lifestyle: • the need for an active lifestyle • how relationship and health needs change as people grow • personal health choices that students must make for themselves in order to enjoy good health.
Key features
• students develop an understanding and ability to value themselves and others
• promotes the need for physical activity • encourages a healthy diet • develops feelings of self-confidence and self-acceptance • builds the skills necessary for positive interpersonal relationships
• prepares students to cope with physical and emotional change
• empowers students to make informed decisions, leading to effective and responsible action.
Student Books • sensitive health issues employ a fictional style • uses a variety of captions, labels, tables, flow charts, photos, diagrams, maps
• uses a range of text types including newspaper reports, brochures, advertisements, information reports, procedures, interviews, letters.
Introductory paragraph that summarises what the spread is about and its importance to the topic of the book
Tables
High-interest design to motivate the reader
Captions for the less-able reader
FOR PRICING SEE PAGE 121 Visual literacy
Teaching Guides • a synopsis of the text • topics for discussion in personal development
• student research activities
• ideas for creative activities
• photocopiable work sheets.
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Big Books • are suitable for shared or modelled reading of factual text types
• help promote classroom discussion of health issues.
Factual text
Diagrams Captions
Text for shared or modelled reading
Visual literacy
Health and Understanding Interactive Whiteboard programs
Bring the Health and Understanding big books to life on your whiteboard or computer. Use the Big Books on the whiteboard and the interactive activities to introduce or reinforce the concepts covered on each spread.
Suitable for
independent reading, guided reading and library reference.
IWB CD-ROM
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