Challenge your students to sort through books and identify relevant headings in this fun colouring activity.

Students must colour code a shelf of books by determining whether or not it is relevant to a given topic of research. Some books will be relevant to more than one topic, while some might not be relevant to any at all!

An additional template asks students to use their school library to research a topic of their choice, filling their bookshelf with any relevant texts they find. They must then explain why other texts were not relevant to their research and determine the factors that made particular texts more useful than others.

Top Teacher Tip: Use the initial worksheets as simple practise or relief teacher fillers, and use the final template as part of planning and preparation for writing an information report! Use with a structure such as the Web Page Case Files Worksheets for an engaging series of lessons.