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Curated OER

Voices at Whisper Bend

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine life in Pennsylvania during and after World War II. Using primary source documents, they compare the unity of the United States during World War II and the Iraq War. They also discover how citizens adapt to the war...
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Curated OER

Tasmanian Time Travel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
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Curated OER

What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students travel the world. For this global studies lesson, students research selected countries and investigate their cultural traditions.
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ReadWriteThink

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...
eBook
Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Blending Fiction and Nonfiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four class periods that ask students to blend narrative and expository writing after reading fiction and nonfiction selections. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links...
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Better Lesson

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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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Elements of Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the elements of nonfiction including types of nonfiction such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, newspaper editorials, speeches, and essays. It features links to a chart of the types of nonfiction and an...
Interactive
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 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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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.
Activity
The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Teaching the Analysis of Non Fiction

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
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.
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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or diary and a fictional adaptation of it.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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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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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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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] 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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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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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students how to tell the difference between 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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