Non-Fiction Reading Cards

LCP Non-Fiction Reading Cards provide your school with a motivating, flexible resource that will help all your pupils develop their non-fiction reading skills. Each card is rich with text, photographs and illustrations perfect for young readers.

These child-friendly reading cards offer your children the opportunity to practise skills identified in the NLS non-fiction reading objectives, across all the National Curriculum subjects.  Each box contains three copies of each of 50 different cards in, so that they can be used for individual, pair or small group work, as well as whole-class work. There are seven boxes available, covering the Foundation Stage through to year 6.

There is a CD to accompany each box, containing all of the cards in an electronic format, which enables you to project them on to a whiteboard for whole-class teaching. You’ll be able to buy these out of your Curriculum Online budget if you choose this option.

The CD that accompanies Box FS also features a number of interactive elements including:

• an audio function, which means that each item of text is read out when clicked on, allowing young children to work on the cards independently
• 50 nursery rhymes, one per card, which are spoken or sung with simple accompaniment
• interactive puzzles, which the children can do on screen. The answers are also revealed on screen

In each box children will meet a range of genres and reading challenges, from timetables to letters and advertisements. The wide variety of themes has been chosen to appeal to both boys and girls and to reflect multicultural and global topics and issues.

‘The LCP Non-Fiction Cards are truly cross-curricular, simple and accessible. We were delighted with the impact of this resource. The cards really motivated the children, but this was particularly noticeable with the gifted and talented and SEN and EAL children. The cards are excellent for encouraging home–school interaction and discussion. The Year 1 card called ‘Great-great-grandma’ [about a Polish great-great-grandmother] gave a pupil from an Indian background the opportunity to produce a leaflet about her family, which all the children then used as a model to produce their own. The children also really enjoyed the ‘making and doing’ aspect as a starting point for reading, and said that they didn’t mind writing after that! I thought that the boxes were excellent value for money and have now ordered all seven!’

Manjit Kaur, Deputy Head, Kingsway Primary School, Leamington Spa

‘My nan loved helping me! I want to take another card home!’

Year 1 child, Kingsway Primary School, Leamington Spa