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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.
Primary
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: 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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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Excerpt From Trail of Tears Diary" by Jobe Alexander & Mary Hill

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Diary of a Teenage Refugee" by Amira

For Students 5th - 6th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: One True Story, Told Two Ways

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Analyze the different perspectives presented by two authors telling the same story.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Truman Capote

For Students 9th - 10th
The creator of the "nonfiction novel," Truman Capote, who established his career as a Southern gothic writer, crossed the line between journalism and fiction. This biography provides his background and information about his writing and...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Aimed particularly towards writing about non-fiction, this site describes ways to think about what you read so you can write more clearly. Focuses on analyzing the "ways of thinking" that an author uses so you can evaluate the validity...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Hyperbole and Understatement (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to recognize hyperbole and understatement in nonfiction. Good examples also appear in other forms of writing such as fiction and poetry, but we...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
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University of Kentucky

Read More About Insects and Their Relatives

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This hyperlinked bibliography of resource books about insects is organized by topics that include insect societies, insect-plant relationships, general insects, behavior, history, collecting, development, fiction, and the like.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: All About Posters

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
As young writers become more skilled through the Writers Workshop lessons, they can begin working to become more skilled with non-fiction writing. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and samples of student work are all provided.
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Other

Siu Edwardsville: Professional Development Center: Lesson Plan: Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson teaching the use of word selection, context, structure, and specific references in making inferences within non-fiction texts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Play the Dewey Decimal System Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson introduces the 10 main categories used in the Dewey Decimal Classification System for non-fiction bookshelf arrangement. A slideshow will be presented to learners to help them learn details about the Dewey Decimal...
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Middlebury College

Middlebury: New England Review

For Students 9th - 10th
The New England Review is a quarterly journal that publishes short fiction, a variety of general and literary nonfiction, and poetry.
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Other

Gaby's Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Retired English teacher and author Gaby Chapman has created and maintains a list of adult-level books for teens who are interested in moving beyond the realm of "adolescent literature." She provides title and author, and more...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore

For Students K - 1st
This site shows you how the fact checker checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter, by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Leprechauns and Irish Folklore, the nonfiction companion...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Pandas and Other Endangered Species

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Pandas and Other Endangered Species, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: After the Chicago Fire [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
"After the Chicago Fire" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about how Chicago was rebuilt after the great fire. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Native Americans: Potawatomi[pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile" is a one page, non-fiction, first person reading/thinking passage about the Potawatomi Native American tribe. It includes information about what they did during each of the seasons of the year.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Harold Bell Wright

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to the full text of 8 novels by Harold Bell Wright.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing

For Students K - 1st
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...

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