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★★★ COMPARING FICTION and NONFICTION ★★★
Do your students need help understanding the differences between fiction vs nonfiction texts? These sorting activities are perfect for making an anchor chart for your classroom as your students are learning to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.
You could also use the descriptor cards in an independent pocket chart center after you have taught the differences between text types. There are several student worksheets included to best meet the needs of your class as classwork, homework, or an assessment.
★★★ NONFICTION TEXT FEATURES ★★★
Ready to teach students all about nonfiction text features? These nonfiction text feature posters and activities are ENGAGING for students and EASY to PREP!
When students understand how to read text features they are reading the whole page — essential for deep comprehension of nonfiction and fiction text.
These text feature activities and worksheets have been created to assist you in teaching students to identify and understand the purpose & function of text features to support comprehension of nonfiction texts.
Included in this resource:
- 22 text feature teaching posters/teaching slides
- self checking text feature puzzles
- text feature bingo
- text feature hunt
- student text feature mini book
- text feature cut & paste activity or assessment
Text Features included:
- table of contents
- index
- glossary
- title page
- photograph
- illustration
- diagram
- cutaway
- chart/table
- graph
- map
- timeline
- heading
- subheading
- keywords
- bullet points
- caption
- labels
- sidebar
Electronic Aids
- icons
- hyperlink
- electronic menu
Sydney M. –
The material in this was helpful to me and the students. My students love the activities that went with this and enjoyed doing them.
Adventures of a Classroom Teacher –
Just what I needed to use in my classroom. Thank you for creating and sharing a wonderful resource!
Cynthia May –
This product is so well done! It is thorough and made a great bulletin board resource for my kids!
Elementary P. –
This is a wonderful product and I have enjoyed using it in my classroom!
Maestra Mariposa –
This has some good resources for instructing and assessing fiction vs. non-fiction.
T M. –
I enjoyed the detailed lesson plans and all of the activities included in this unit.
Aixa W. –
Thank you for all these activities. The students enjoyed them.
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Alexa C. –
Great resource! My students were engaged. Thank you for posting!
Kathryn B. –
My students loved this resource. It helped them to understand the concepts and I use it every year!
Amy W. –
Thank you for this wonderful resource! The students loved it!
Sarah G. –
Straightforward nonfiction vs fiction resource. This resource provides great visuals to teach the difference between nonfiction and fiction. I was able to create anchor charts for the students to refer to using this resource. I liked the simple Venn diagram activity. I do wish there were more hands-on activities for the kids to complete.
Denver W. –
This resource was used for independent work and my students loved it.
Carly D. –
Great resource for students to learn text features. Lots of great activities for review.
Jamie Schwartz –
Great supports and practice for differentiating between fiction and non-fiction as well as reviewing non-fiction text features.
Barbara R. –
I really enjoyed using this resource. It really helped me teach this standard.
Heidi P. –
Great resource for discussing fiction/nonfiction and features
Sarah M. –
This is a great resource for teaching fiction and non fiction.
Lisa F. –
Loved it and used it often for different lessons in my classroom.
Alicia K. –
We are hitting non fiction and fiction text features heavy. These help my students daily! The students that are not 100% sure of the features look at them and use them as a reference. These are a major help to my students and to my teaching! Thank you!
Deborah S. –
Great resource, easy to differentiate for mixed abilities.