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Rubric
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Holt Assessment: Evaluating Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This one-page printable worksheet is designed for classroom use in evaluating a reading of nonfiction. The evaluation is set up in a rubric format.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Reader Response Quest. To Focus and Reflect on Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Daily Teaching Tools provides nineteen reading response prompts for fiction and six reading response prompts for nonfiction. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Flash Cards: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
These interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to nonfiction. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface, italicized, preface, sidebar, and...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Match Game: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to nonfiction with their definitions. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Elements of Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short worksheet which allows students to improve their understanding of the elements of nonfiction literature. Provides eight questions and allows students to craft responses for a given literary text.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Characters and Characterization

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This activity addresses the types of characters found in stories and the methods authors use to build characters.
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Website
Other

Fun Lesson plans.com: Reading Lesson P Lans: Literature Circles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Improve your students' reading comprehension with these free literature circle worksheets.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Writing Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This series of nonfiction writing lessons was developed by Stuart Miller. Four activities include: Describing the Real World, The Interview, Writing a Profile, and Writing a Review.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Creating Character

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This article provides good insight into the creation of a character.