Fiction and Nonfiction Text Lesson Plans & Worksheets

New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards

Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...

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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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Read Write Think: Animal Study From Fiction to Facts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to compare and research information about animals from fiction and nonfiction texts. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to...

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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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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...

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British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Gender, Behaviour & Etiquette

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This thematic collection will allow young scholars to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...

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TES Global

Blendspace: Connection: Historical Fiction to Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

A learning module with fifteen links to slides, websites, videos, websites, and quizzes about linking historical fiction and nonfiction texts.

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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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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 learners 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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Better Lesson: Analyzing Text Complexity of Non Fiction Sources

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This instructional activity will help students read and comprehend nonfiction, specifically biographies, through determining criteria for text complexity. Included is a PDF and Smart Notebook titled Determining Text Complexity, and an...

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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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TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.

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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

Definition: Fiction v. Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This writing and reading tutorial provides a detailed explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction in rhetoric.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Nonfiction Text Features 3rd Grade Flashcards

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise Flashcards are provided for the following words: map, table of contents, index, bold words, caption, timeline, heading, and glossary. Images of each of these text...

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Other

Read Print Publishing: Full Text Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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.

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TES Global

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

For Teachers 5th - 8th

[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars 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...

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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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Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[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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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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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington

For Students Pre-K - 1st

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington (1883), a book of illustrated poems, children's stories, birds, games, and historical information. Includes both fiction and...

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Flash Cards: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

These interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to nonfiction. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface, italicized, preface, sidebar, and...

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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.

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TES Global

Tes: Guided Reading Resources: Nonfiction

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module contains several guided reading resources. Students will be able to use the charts to guide themselves as they discuss informational texts and persuasive texts. Teachers can monitor...

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