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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identify, Compare, Write Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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ReadWriteThink

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will have a whale of a good time in this instructional activity in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Thinkport Education

Write Now: Arguing for Change

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students are presented with a scenario of bullying and are asked to write an "argument for change" as a way to get classmates to stop bullying. In preparing their argumentative piece, students are guided to examine fiction and nonfiction...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Writing Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This series of nonfiction writing lessons was developed by Stuart Miller. Four activities include: Describing the Real World, The Interview, Writing a Profile, and Writing a Review.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Creating and Using Outlines [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the three-page PDF The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines." It explains and provides examples of what to do before starting the outline, working thesis, defining purpose, the types of outlines, creating the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
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Other

Storyarts: The on Line Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Storyarts is a free online writing workshop that includes not only assignments, but also publication of writings to other e-mail subscribers through its Storyarts Listserv. Samples of published works are included.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Comparison/contrast Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: 10th Lit/comp

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains learning modules on the following topics: Research and MLA Foundations, Novels and Short Stories, Poetry: the Sonnet, Shakespearean Drama, Informative and Argumentative Essays,Research and MLA Review, Narrative Nonfiction,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Jfk Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on John F. Kennedy's speech, "We Choose to go to the Moon," delivered at Rice University on September 12, 1962. It features links to JFK's biography and Wikipedia entry, the National Geographic: "Moon 101" video, the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Writing and Language Test: The Passages

For Students 9th - 10th
The SAT Writing and Language Test asks you to edit and revise passages written by an anonymous author. You will encounter a variety of passages from four content areas: Careers, History/Social Studies, Science, and Humanities. Each...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Nonfiction Pyramid

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A printable pyramid for use with nonfiction texts while students identify the main ideas and supporting details within a text. Students also determine author's purpose and key vocabulary words. Directions on how to use this type of...
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Other

The Biography Maker

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains what a biography is and outlines how to write an effective one.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Nonfiction Book Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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."...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Questions about weather clear up when learners use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Nonfiction Notepads [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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 on each notepad response:...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Body Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing body paragraphs for argumentative essays.

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