Summaries

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three sentences.

anaesthetic

given to patients to stop them feeling pain. Little

was known about anaesthetics in Tudor times,

so surgery was often very painful for the patient.

Usually the patient would be made drunk, or

punched, to make them unconcious so that they

would not fell pain.

barber-surgeon

person who cut hair and performed operations.

Barber-surgeons amputated legs and arms,

pulled out teeth and stitched cuts. They did not

always use clean medical instruments and so

spread infection. They had no anaesthetics, so

surgery was very painful for their patients.

chest

wooden box where doctors kept instruments

and medicines. Inside were glass bottles for

medicines and cures, and instruments for

operating on patients.

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Edit the text below, deleting as many unnecessary words as possible. You could use the style of the entries in An Encyclopedia of Tudor Medicine as a guide.

bruise

A bruise is an injury caused by a blow to the body. The dark mark, or bruise, left on the skin is caused by slight bleeding under the skin. At first, the blood clots and the bruise looks black and purple. Later, as the blood dissolves, the bruise turns yellowy green and then fades. The medical name for a bruise is a contusion.

Book titles

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How did the layout and organisation of the book help you to read?

What was the most interesting fact in the book?

Would you recommend? Why?/Why not?

Reading picturesLook through the book and answer these questions.

Book title

What sort of pictures are there? e.g. drawings, photographs, diagrams, tables, timelines, maps, graphs.

If there are drawings, why have they been used instead of photographs?

Now choose a double page spread. Look carefully at the pictures and read the text.

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What can you work out from the pictures that you are not told in the texts.

Would you change or add any pictures to the pages? If so, what?

How I read non-fiction texts

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you do.

I look at the cover and think about the

content.

I think about what I already know about

the subject.

I read from beginning to end.

I flick through the book to get an idea of

content and how the book is organised.

I read the contents page to find out what

the main sections are.

I use the contents page to help me find

what I want to know.

I use index to help me find what I want to

know

I skim read a page and decide where to

start reading.

I read all the illustrations.

I read all headings and sub-headings.

I notice the different types of print e.g.

bold and italics.

When I want to find a particular piece of

information I scan the page looking for

key words.

When I find what I want on a page I read

closely around the word to see if I can find

more.

When I have finished reading, I think

about what I have found out.

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have done.

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