Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Reseach: "Choosing Nonfiction Sources" [Pdf]
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Nonfiction Forms and Traits [Pdf]
This is a chart showing the types of nonfiction, the traits of each, and the author's purpose.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Nonfiction Reading
This lesson focuses on students reading nonfiction works including excerpts from: Night by Elie Wiesel, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...
Other
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition
This is an introduction to a unit on writing in various genre including Nonfiction, Narrative, Literary Writing, Short Stories, and Poetry. Analysis of "The Odyssey", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Romeo and Juliet". Click on the View links...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Survival
This is an introduction to a unit on survival literature; it focuses on the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, hie story of survival of The Holocaust.
Other
Asle: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
This site provides links to literature about the environment. They offer publications, programs, conferences, and events that explore the topic of literature and environment.
University of Calgary
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Literature
This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon Literature including the importance of the monks who listened to the stories and poems and wrote them down and the two nonfiction pieces that had an impact on creation of the written language: The...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism
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....
New York University
Nyu: Literature, Arts and Medicine Database
NYU's Literature, Arts and Medicine Database is a collection of writings, art and film that encompass the medical humanities. Full texts of fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are available, as well as artworks and film clips. Summary...
Curated OER
Study Guide for a Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle
This study guide provide activities for all chapters in Madeleine L'Engle's fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Connected text questions are provlded for Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Elements of Nonfiction [Pdf]
A short worksheet which allows students to improve their understanding of the elements of nonfiction literature. Provides eight questions and allows students to craft responses for a given literary text.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Storyland of Stars by Mara L. Pratt
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Storyland of Stars by Mara L. Pratt (1892). This is an illustrated, nonfiction book about astronomy and the stars from Young Folks' Library of Choice Literature.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Nonfiction Book Review
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.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye (1894), a collection of nonfiction, humorous stories, sketches, photographs, and memoranda from the Harvard Series.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers in the Far East by Thomas W. Knox
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Far East by Thomas W. Knox, (1880?) a nonfiction account of the adventures of two boys in a journey to Japan and China.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Uncle John's First Shipwreck by Charles Bruce
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Uncle John's First Shipwreck or The Loss of the Brig "Nellie" by Charles Bruce, a nonfiction story of Uncle John's shipwreck and the loss of his ship.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: From Many Lands, Asia by Raphael Tuck & Sons
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book From Many Lands, Asia by Raphael Tuck & Sons(1890), nonfiction information about the countries in Asia.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, & China by M. Jones
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the illustrated children's book Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, & China by M. Jones (1888), a nonfiction narrative of the Abbe Huc's Travels in the Far East with a Roman Catholic...
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Teaching the Analysis of Non Fiction
A form used by an English teacher to help students understand and analyze nonfiction literature. Very helpful ways to classify information. It can be modified for different grade levels.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Literature Newsletter
Free monthly email newsletters featuring classic children's literature, new books, ideas and activities to use with students, and links to other Internet resources.