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....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students 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 Villa...

Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...

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.

Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will compare two informational texts about two extinct birds, the Great Auk and the Dodo. A Venn Diagram is provided to be used when comparing an contrasting tests.

An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-activity unit in which students learn how to identify explicit information in both fiction and non-fiction texts. The lessons utilize the books Frogs by Gail Gibbons and Stellaluna by Janell...

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on fiction and nonfiction genres.

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...

In this lesson plan, students will consider Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath". Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will compare nonfiction...

[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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson includes...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing (1883), a collection of illustrated passages forming a family portfolio of natural history, biography, and Bible...

This book checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. Mummies and Pyramids, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is the...

Take an animated field trip to the library and learn about what you are likely to see and experience on an actual visit. An excellent introduction to this important community resource for young children that also explains the difference...

A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.

A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.

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...

This bibliography includes not only Stephen King's novels and short stories, but chapter books, collections, nonfiction, anthologies containing his stories, awards and nominations, as well as secondary literature about his work. Click on...

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...