Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Reseach: "Choosing Nonfiction Sources" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the 20-page PDF "Choosing Nonfiction Sources." It provides informatation about various types of nonfiction: primary and secondary sources, reference works, databases, newspapers and periodicals, and nonfiction books; it also...
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Nonfiction Book Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This five-page essay provides an example of a nonfiction book review. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Article
Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

For Students 6th - 8th
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair with the nonfiction book "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago. Esmeralda Santiago, also known as Negi, describes her childhood growing up in Puerto Rico and her eventual...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Country Picture Book

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Country Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn...
Website
Other

Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
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Other

Seattle University: Literature Circles Resource Center

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you get started with literature circles in your classroom? This site provides information on every aspect of developing your own literature circle instruction.
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...
eBook
Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

For Students 5th - 8th
Based on a true account, this book tells the story of Salva Dut, an 11-year-old boy separated from his family by the civil war in Sudan, and Nya, a girl from a small village who walks miles each day to fetch water for her family....
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching a book unit this year? It's a best practice to supplement book units with short passages from a variety of different genres. These 92 reading passages were handpicked by master teachers to supplement your book units. They...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Favourite Book of Beasts, Birds, and Fishes

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The Favourite Book of Beasts, Birds, and Fishes, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Child's Book of Trades

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Child's Book of Trades, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy's Book of Inventions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of The Boy's Book of Inventions by Ray Stannard Baker, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by G. Routledge

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by George Routledge (1884), a nonfiction book about domestic animals.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Delightful Colored Picture Book

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Delightful Colored Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Round the World With Note Book and Camera

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Round the World with Note Book and Camera by Lida Brooks Miller, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Book About Birds by Religious Tract Society

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Book about Birds by Religious Tract Society (1865), a nonfiction book about birds by type: water birds, wading birds, field birds, birds of prey, song birds, etc.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Book About Animals

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of A Book about Animals, a nonfiction book for children.

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