Questions / instructions:
Here is a phone book for three areas in the West Coast. They are Greymouth, Hokitika and Westport.
Different kinds of information are found in different parts of the book — the covers, blue pages, white pages and yellow pages.
Without looking through the book, I want you to tell me which would be the best part of the book to quickly find different kinds of information. Where would you look for:

Now I would like you to look for some phone numbers for me.
Give the student the phone book and the cue card.

4. I want you to find the main phone number in the white pages for the House of Travel Hokitika and tell me the number.

6. If you really need a phone number but can't find it in the book, what could you do?

Prompts: Tell me why/how you would do that?
Can you think of another way to find out the number?

Commentary:
The year 8 students had substantial success with this task. It is worth noting that the location of the emergency numbers was not known by 41 percent of the students.

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