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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. It contains classics such...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Middle/high School Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Here one can generate several reading comprehension activities for middle or high school students with material ranging from biographies to non-fictional content.
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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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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Neil Sheehan

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Neil Sheehan, a journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for a book he wrote about his experience of the Vietnam War. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pumpkins and Apples, Oh My!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to compare and contrast two non-fiction books with a similar theme - in this case, plant life cycles. Extensive resources included such as worksheets, samples of student work, assessment ideas, extension activities,...
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

For Students 9th - 10th
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has created one of the more thorough websites on Poe. It presents many essays on his life and various aspects of his works, as well as the texts of most of Poe's writings, including his poetry,...
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Education.com

Education.com: Compare and Contrast Non Fiction Stories: Extinct Birds

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[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.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Non Fiction Text Features 3rd Grade Match

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Text feature terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions 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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Virginia Tech

Alan Review: Course Correction

For Students 6th - 8th
Janet Bode wrote this article discussing why she writes, for whom she's writing, and the importance of non-fiction literature for young adults.
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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A New Park [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"A New Park" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about how a school in need of a playground got a city park instead. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book retraces the steps of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Syntax (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Evaluate the role of syntax in literary non-fiction such as speeches, essays, and other forms.
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Yale University

Biographies for Change in a Time of Conformity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Reading non-fiction and perhaps particularly biography is a skill that must be taught. This unit uses the lives of three icons: Elvis Presley, Malcolm X and Rachel Carson to develop this skills. Extensive bibliography for the teacher,...
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Writing Effective Paraphrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students practice paraphrasing brief, non-fiction passages.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Learning Media Presents Pov Watch Club

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PBS LearningMedia Presents POV Watch Club. Free to educators each month. Let's watch and learn together! Join the Watch Club: Since February 2021 PBS has teamed up with POV to bring a documentary from television's longest-running...
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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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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Caracteristicas De Ficcion Y Noficcion

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was written for a bilingual Grade 2 classroom and reviews the characteristics of fiction and non fiction. It is written in Spanish.
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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...
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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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Other

Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

For Students 6th - 8th
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
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Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....

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