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Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Nonfiction 2014 2015

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.
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Starfall

Starfall: Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students 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.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Test

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Text feature terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of the text feature terms are included....
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Virginia Tech

Pixel: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading and Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short summary of different skills involved in reading fiction vs. non-fiction. Includes study tips and an organizational guide to use when reading.
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TES Global

Tes: Non Fiction Unit 4 Formal/impersonal Writing: Tourists

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze tourism brochures to determine features related to nonfiction writing in this unit. Tourism websites may be used in lieu of the brochures. Cotswold and the North Leigh Roman Villa...
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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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Text Features: Non Fiction [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Compare the printed page to an electronic web page and use this activity to discuss the similarities and differences. A cross-curricular tie-in with ecosystems. Could easily be adapted to another subject area.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Cross Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Education.com

Education.com: Compare and Contrast Non Fiction Stories: Extinct Birds

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will compare two informational texts about two extinct birds, the Great Auk and the Dodo. A Venn Diagram is provided to be used when comparing an contrasting tests.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Match Game: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to nonfiction with their definitions. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Truman Capote

For Students 9th - 10th
The creator of the "nonfiction novel," Truman Capote, who established his career as a Southern gothic writer, crossed the line between journalism and fiction. This biography provides his background and information about his writing and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath". Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this activity students will compare nonfiction...
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TES Global

Tes: Analyzing & Comparing Non Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.
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Other

The Missouri Review: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Missouri Review includes fiction and nonfiction and is provided for by the University of Missouri.
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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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Hyperbole and Understatement (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to recognize hyperbole and understatement in nonfiction. Good examples also appear in other forms of writing such as fiction and poetry, but we...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Mummies and Pyramids

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. Mummies and Pyramids, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is the...

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