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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...
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Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.
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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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

For Students 5th - 8th
Based on a true account, this book tells the story of Salva Dut, an 11-year-old boy separated from his family by the civil war in Sudan, and Nya, a girl from a small village who walks miles each day to fetch water for her family....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask young scholars to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching a book unit this year? It's a best practice to supplement book units with short passages from a variety of different genres. These 92 reading passages were handpicked by master teachers to supplement your book units. They...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Favourite Book of Beasts, Birds, and Fishes

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The Favourite Book of Beasts, Birds, and Fishes, a nonfiction book for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Child's Book of Trades

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Child's Book of Trades, a nonfiction book for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy's Book of Inventions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of The Boy's Book of Inventions by Ray Stannard Baker, a nonfiction book for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by G. Routledge

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by George Routledge (1884), a nonfiction book about domestic animals.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Delightful Colored Picture Book

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Delightful Colored Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Round the World With Note Book and Camera

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Round the World with Note Book and Camera by Lida Brooks Miller, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Book About Birds by Religious Tract Society

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Book about Birds by Religious Tract Society (1865), a nonfiction book about birds by type: water birds, wading birds, field birds, birds of prey, song birds, etc.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Book About Animals

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of A Book about Animals, a nonfiction book for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Book for the Sea Side

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of A Book for the Sea-Side, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Book of Natural History

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Book of Natural History by Francis Orpen Morris, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Darton's Picture Story Book

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Darton's Picture Story Book, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Book of Sports

For Students 3rd - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Book of Sports by William Martin, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness by Elisabeth Celnart, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Youth's Book of Gems for the Mind and the Heart

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Youth's Book of Gems for the Mind and the Heart by Francis Channing Woodworth, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy's Book of Sports and Games

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Boy's Book of Sports and Games by John Aikin, Anna Letita Barbauld, and William Clarke, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Book of Enterprise and Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication The Book of Enterprise and Adventure, a nonfiction book for children.

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