Scholastic
Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading
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...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Country Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Country Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction
[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...
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Seattle University: Literature Circles Resource Center
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.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text
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...
Starfall
Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction
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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Nonfiction
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Child's Book of Trades
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Child's Book of Trades, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Boy's Book of Inventions
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of The Boy's Book of Inventions by Ray Stannard Baker, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Delightful Colored Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Delightful Colored Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Book About Birds by Religious Tract Society
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.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Red Book
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Red Book by Mary Martha Sherwood, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Book About Animals
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Book about Animals by Rufus Merrill, a nonfiction book for children.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Book About Animals
This lesson will allow students an opportunity to create a book about the different characteristics of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects. This lesson can be used as a wrap-up project for a unit on animals. This is a fun way for...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
Harold D. Underdown
Open Minds: Nonfiction for the Very Young
An interesting article from The Purple Crayon, a website for children's literature. Discusses the recent trend in children's books toward nonfiction and offers terrific insight into the realities of exposing young children to it.
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Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A B C Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A B C Picture Book by Francis C. Woodworth, a nonfiction alphabet book for children.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books
Beginning writers work through a Writing Workshop format to create Question and Answer books. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, possible texts, and samples of student work are all provided.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones by Charlotte Mary Yonge, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Home Teachings in Science
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Home Teachings in Science by William Cowper, a nonfiction book for children.
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