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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry Based Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for lessons that help students explore the nonfiction genre by doing inquiry-based research on animals. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identify, Compare, Write Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.
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Other

Seeing the World in Print Through Nonfiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for tenth graders. They center around reading and writing nonfiction, and they teach skills such as identifying the features of nonfiction and writing expository texts. All are aligned to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade young scholars. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Science Texts to Teach the Organization of Nonfiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that use science textbooks to teach about the organizational features of nonfiction such as labels, captions, headings, and fonts. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with timelines in connection to nonfiction reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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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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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn...
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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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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan to help elementary young scholars connect to nonfiction text as they read.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Literature in Nonfiction Inquiry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan involves students working in groups after reading a work of literature to develop text sets. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
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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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction With Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for nine 50-minute lessons that center around different versions of "Little Red Riding Hood." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as...

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