Second graders get many opportunities to practice their measurement skills.

Students practice basic reading skills. In this reading lesson plan, students review the letter M, read the story If You Give a Mouse a Muffin. Students will then write a book using their name, for example: If You Give a Taco to Tracy.

First graders differentiate between different pieces of literary genres by participating in a hands-on activity. This includes a student assessment sheet.

Fourth graders read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.

Contains plans for four class periods that ask students to blend narrative and expository writing after reading fiction and nonfiction selections. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links...

Young scholars will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...

Contains plans for nine 50-minute lessons that center around different versions of "Little Red Riding Hood." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as...

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to compare and research information about animals from fiction and nonfiction texts. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...

A lesson plan in which students look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.

This lesson focuses on how to write a nonfiction comparison/contrast paper including the reasons for writing them and the three organizational strategies. It features links to transition words, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams,...

A learning module with fifteen links to slides, websites, videos, websites, and quizzes about linking historical fiction and nonfiction texts.

This is a collection of six fiction ebooks, eight non-fiction ebooks, and three sets of sentence activities: dragon, baby, and toy box. Students can choose to read or listen to each sentence of the ebooks.

This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.

This lesson focuses on the elements of nonfiction including types of nonfiction such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, newspaper editorials, speeches, and essays. It features links to a chart of the types of nonfiction and an...

A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.

Short summary of different skills involved in reading fiction vs. non-fiction. Includes study tips and an organizational guide to use when reading.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington (1883), a book of illustrated poems, children's stories, birds, games, and historical information. Includes both fiction and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students how to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

This lesson is an introduction to American Literature Postmodernism, after WWII an age of rapid development in science and technology. It discusses the characteristics of Postmodernism and lists some of the authors and their new ideas....

This resource is a poster that includes cues that will help students compare and contrast information. These questions can be applied to fiction and nonfiction passages.

Karleen Bradford is well known for her historical fiction written for children and teens. She has also written fiction and nonfiction. Her site has descriptions of her books as well as some teacher guides.

This writing and reading tutorial provides a detailed explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction in rhetoric.