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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
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E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on fiction and nonfiction genres.
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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson 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 to...
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Class Flow: Genres Activotes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an Activote genre quiz to go along with Genres lesson.
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Read Print Publishing: Full Text Literature
Full text and free online versions of plays, essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. Search by favorite author or title and immediately find your text of choice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Caracteristicas De Ficcion Y Noficcion
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was written for a bilingual Grade 2 classroom and reviews the characteristics of fiction and non fiction. It is written in Spanish.
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Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
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Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.