Fiction non fiction

Hello Everyone! I am going to be quick today as I have a ton of studying to do for my ESL Certification, and tomorrow is Valentine's Day! I've got a lot to do to get ready for the festivities and love!! Our "Friendship Celebration" should be a lot of fun!! Anyway, today we worked hard on the main differences between fiction and nonfiction books. We talked about the kinds of pictures, words, elements, and the reason for reading both genres. We made this anchor chart to help us remember. With…

first grade resource Fiction vs Nonfiction

An early lesson you want to teach your students is the difference in books that tell stories and books that give information. I have found that the best way to teach this is within context of different types of texts. Let's read more about some resources that I have used to teach the differences in the two types, as well as meet our pesky friend, the BOOK BANDIT! We begin the unit learning the text features of both types of texts by creating this anchor chart and using real text examples to…

Teaching realistic fiction genre study? Start by explaining the elements. Then read short stories. Finally, ask kids to write their own!

Fiction vs non-fiction: Cute anchor chart for teaching kids the difference.

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Genre anchor chart and free printables!

A quiz to evaluate your students on fiction and non-fiction knowledge. They need to be ready to back up their answers if asked.

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Non Fiction Writing Characteristics. My students brainstormed, at the beginning of the unit, the things they could find in non fiction texts to help us keep in mind what we can put into our own nonfiction writing.

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In this short reading passage, kids learn about whales. This activity helps integrate science into your reading instruction. Topics included: Where does the whale live? What does it eat? How does it look like? Followed by three questions for a small research project. Printing options: full color and black lines.

Understanding the difference between fiction and nonfiction text can be difficult for some first and second graders. A few low prep ideas to help students better understand the differences are a class discussion and anchor chart, a daily 5 bucket book sort, and a Scholastic book club sort. Use the free fiction or nonfiction download for some more hands on ways to help K, 1st, & 2nd graders practice the skill. Make a confusing concept more understandable and grab your freebie today.

A quick true or false fiction and non fiction quiz. True or False Fiction or Non Fiction

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In this short reading passage, kids learn about cats. This activity helps integrate science into your reading instruction. Topics included: Where does the cat live? What does it eat? How does it look like? Followed by three questions for a small research project. Printing options: full color and black lines.

While I would love to share this, I don't feel quite comfortable doing that, as it is very closely based on this pin on Pinterest. It is something that the pinner purchased. Although it covered all the types of non-fiction I need to touch upon, there were things I needed to change to make it work for my classroom. First, I included "The Internet" instead of "digital media." Really, this was more for the familiarity/vernacular of my students than anything. Next, the definitions came out of…

When teaching what type of books are fiction and which are non-fiction, my brain always has to stop and think about which is which. How come people who name things can't make them easy to remember? Shouldn't non-fiction be NOT real? Firsties would catch on SO much quicker that way, but since it's not here's what we've been doing. We started off by making these 2 anchor charts together. We sorted the different pictures after discovering the 2 types of books after looking at a pile of each and…