Fiction vs nonfiction bulletin board

Nonfiction bulletin board

An early lesson you want to teach your students is the difference in books that tell stories and books that give information. I have found that the best way to teach this is within context of different types of texts. Let's read more about some resources that I have used to teach the differences in the two types, as well as meet our pesky friend, the BOOK BANDIT! We begin the unit learning the text features of both types of texts by creating this anchor chart and using real text examples to…

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Fiction vs. nonfiction chart

This Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort is great for helping beginning readers to understand differences in genres and be able to classify the books that they read. This activity is part of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Reader series.

We began the week by looking closely at examples of fiction and non-fiction texts about a common theme (trees, animals, etc.) and discussed similarities and differences. The children quickly identified differences in form for our anchor chart. During daily mini-lessons we are identifying text features and explaining how they help us as readers. When we completed a Venn-diagram to sort text features, we noted that BOTH fiction (chapter books) and non-fiction texts have a Table of Contents…

Hello Everyone! I've had some requests to make a printable Fiction/Nonfiction anchor chart. I originally posted a pic of the anchor chart my kiddos and I worked on back in February. (search Feb 13, 2012) I finally had a chance to make one to print and maybe store in the kids' reading journal, or just post in the classroom if you don't have room for a large chart. Hope it helps! for your free printable, click here! :) Have a great day! Thanks for taking a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy

Smart Board Lesson Ideas - Fiction versus Nonfiction