Characteristics of Nonfiction

The second instructional activity in a series from ReadWorks.org, this instructional activity continues to explore the difference between fiction and nonfiction texts. The instructional activity opens with the teacher reviewing a class Venn diagram started in the last instructional activity. Together, the teacher and the class look through several more nonfiction texts, such as In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierre, and identify more characteristics of these kinds of texts. After practicing as a class, learners read a nonfiction