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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on fiction and nonfiction genres.
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EL Education

El Education: A Beaver Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Dave Pelzer

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information and pictures of Dave Pelzer, author of the non-fiction book A Child Called It.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages pupils to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...
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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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New York University

Nyu: Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

For Students 9th - 10th
NYU's Literature, Arts and Medicine Database is a collection of writings, art and film that encompass the medical humanities. Full texts of fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are available, as well as artworks and film clips. Summary...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Norman Mailer

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Norman Mailer, a prominent and politically engaged writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his fiction as well as his nonfiction. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Balanced Diet

For Teachers 2nd
In this lesson, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as additional resources.
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Tech4Learning

Tech4 Learning: Digital Storytelling in the Primary Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article presents lots of excellent ideas for having students create digital texts, both fiction and nonfiction. Examples of student work, narrated by the students, are provided.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests for Comprehension Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A teaching resource with ten free downloadable reading tests/comprehension practice along with an answer key.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests for Comprehension Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A teaching resource with ten free downloadable reading tests/comprehension practice sheets along with an answer key.
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Repeat After Us

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio...
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Home Recreation

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Home Recreation by Grandfather Merryman, a book of fiction and nonfiction stories for children.
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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Picture Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Students will read a piece of fiction or nonfiction. Then students will illustrate the meaning of the text of this graphic organizer.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Parley's Book of Books

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Parley's Book of Books by Samuel G. Goodrich, a collection of fiction and nonfiction stories for children.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Amy Tan's

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that use Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" to teach about nonfiction and fiction as well as engage the issue of language and identity. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Let's Build a Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These two lessons that teach learners about how animals survive in the winter by reading fiction and nonfiction. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Other

Encyclopedia.com: Judith Viorst

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of writer Judith Viorst. Looks at her accomplishments and awards and includes a long list of the many books she wrote, organized into categories of fiction and nonfiction for children and books and poetry for adults. The...
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Pearson

Pearson Education: Practice Reading Selection: Grade 7

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource presents two reading selections followed by extended response and multiple choice comprehension questions. Students read the fiction selection "A Letter from New York" by Jean Lawler and answer eight questions covering...
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Read Works

Read Works: The British Are Coming!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a historical fiction depiction of a family's perspective of the Revolutionary War. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential...

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