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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Behind the Bars at the Zoo

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication Behind the Bars at the Zoo, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Familiar Natural History, With Descriptions

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Familiar Natural History, with Descriptions by R. Lee, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: First Steps in General Knowledge

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of First Steps in General Knowledge by Sarah Windsor Tomlinson, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Flowers That Never Fade

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Flowers that Never Fade by Annie Amelia, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Gem

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Gem, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Animals of the Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication Animals of the Farm, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bird and Animal Series: Domestic Animals by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bird and Animal Series: Domestic Animals by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction book of illustrated stories about cats, dogs, and farm animals.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pioneers

For Students 3rd - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1872 publication of The Pioneers by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Child's History of England

For Students 9th - 10th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens, a nonfiction book for children.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Columbus Was an Explorer

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short nonfiction book passage is about Christopher Columbus and his contributions to exploration. This book in the SummerReads series, intended to work against the summer reading slide, reinforces...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas Carlyle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Thomas Carlyle including a biography and the full text of the nonfiction book The French Revolution.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the nonfiction book A Hope In the Unseen by Ron Suskind including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring Owls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, young scholars will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Classifying Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson includes direct...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn to...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye (1894), a collection of nonfiction, humorous stories, sketches, photographs, and memoranda from the Harvard Series.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers in the Far East by Thomas W. Knox

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Far East by Thomas W. Knox, (1880?) a nonfiction account of the adventures of two boys in a journey to Japan and China.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Uncle John's First Shipwreck by Charles Bruce

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Uncle John's First Shipwreck or The Loss of the Brig "Nellie" by Charles Bruce, a nonfiction story of Uncle John's shipwreck and the loss of his ship.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: From Many Lands, Asia by Raphael Tuck & Sons

For Students 1st - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book From Many Lands, Asia by Raphael Tuck & Sons(1890), nonfiction information about the countries in Asia.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, & China by M. Jones

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the illustrated children's book Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, & China by M. Jones (1888), a nonfiction narrative of the Abbe Huc's Travels in the Far East with a Roman Catholic...
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Activity
Other

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...

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