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Unit Plan
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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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Write Now: Arguing for Change

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students are presented with a scenario of bullying and are asked to write an "argument for change" as a way to get classmates to stop bullying. In preparing their argumentative piece, students are guided to examine fiction and nonfiction...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Balanced Diet

For Teachers 2nd
In this instructional activity, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as...
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Article
Tech4Learning

Tech4 Learning: Digital Storytelling in the Primary Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article presents lots of excellent ideas for having students create digital texts, both fiction and nonfiction. Examples of student work, narrated by the students, are provided.
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Handout
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers

Canscaip: Deborah Hodge

For Students 3rd - 5th
Deborah Hodge is a Canadian children's author of both fiction and nonfiction. This page has biographical information and a list of her published works.
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: How to Write Critical Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the viewer with a step-by-step guide to writing critical reviews for non-fiction works. Its steps include analyzing the assignment as well as writing a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Links to other writing...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on fiction and nonfiction genres.
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eBook
Other

Read Print Publishing: Full Text Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Full text and free online versions of plays, essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. Search by favorite author or title and immediately find your text of choice.
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Website
Other

Repeat After Us

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to American Literature Postmodernism, after WWII an age of rapid development in science and technology. It discusses the characteristics of Postmodernism and lists some of the authors and their new ideas....
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Whiteboard
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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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Home Recreation

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Home Recreation by Grandfather Merryman, a book of fiction and nonfiction stories for children.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource is a poster that includes cues that will help students compare and contrast information. These questions can be applied to fiction and nonfiction passages.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Picture Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Students will read a piece of fiction or nonfiction. Then students will illustrate the meaning of the text of this graphic organizer.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Parley's Book of Books

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Parley's Book of Books by Samuel G. Goodrich, a collection of fiction and nonfiction stories for children.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Let's Build a Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These two lessons that teach learners about how animals survive in the winter by reading fiction and nonfiction. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Handout
Other

Encyclopedia.com: Judith Viorst

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of writer Judith Viorst. Looks at her accomplishments and awards and includes a long list of the many books she wrote, organized into categories of fiction and nonfiction for children and books and poetry for adults. The...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Excerpt From Trail of Tears Diary" by Jobe Alexander & Mary Hill

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Diary of a Teenage Refugee" by Amira

For Students 5th - 6th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: One True Story, Told Two Ways

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Analyze the different perspectives presented by two authors telling the same story.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Truman Capote

For Students 9th - 10th
The creator of the "nonfiction novel," Truman Capote, who established his career as a Southern gothic writer, crossed the line between journalism and fiction. This biography provides his background and information about his writing and...

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