Key learning points

1. ‘Crazy About Cats’ encourages various connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world.
2. Through real-world connections, non-fiction texts can inspire positive actions and change in readers.
3. Readers can summarise main ideas of non-fiction texts by returning to the contents page to reflect on their reading.
4. Owen Davey uses a range of formal and informal language to engage the reader.
5. Readers can focus on a number of features of the text to consider its purpose.

Common misconception

Keywords

• Connection - How a text relates to a reader, another text or the wider world can be called a connection.

• Summarise - To summarise means to pull out the key information and ideas from the text.

• Purpose - The purpose of a text refers to the reason it was written and the desired impact.