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Sorting and categorizing isn’t just for cleaning! In this fun-filled activity, students will learn how to distinguish fiction from nonfiction.

Nonfiction vs. Fiction: Which Style Is It?

Using charts is a great way to see similarities, differences, and information. This visual lesson will help all students see what can be gained from nonfiction and fiction texts.

Knowledge Charting

In this lesson, students will practice comparing and contrasting texts...without even reading them! By looking closely at pictures and text features, students will be prepared to further compare fiction texts. 

Compare & Contrast Pictures

This lesson is a great introductory or review lesson to teach your ELs about the elements of a story. Can be used as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson.

Retelling a Fiction Story

Use this fun lesson plan as a stand alone or pre-lesson when introducing the concept of retelling a story to your ELs.

Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories

Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to review or teach all about retelling a story with your ELs. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Goldilocks and the Beginning, Middle, and End.

Making Connections in a Fiction Text

In this lesson, students will look at picture clues to determine the topic of texts. ELs will build vocabulary and language skills by working with partners to discuss and represent texts using drawings. 

Sorting & Describing Books

Students will enjoy this fast-paced lesson as they incorporate acting, reading, and detective work while learning how to use context clues in fiction.

Is It the Same?

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

Classifying Nonfiction Details

Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to help your students identify key characters and events in fiction stories. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Play it Again lesson plan.

Who are the Key Characters?

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts in this fun under-the-sea-themed lesson plan.

Comparing Whales

It's time to dig into some nonfiction books! In this lesson, students will practice identifying the main topic of nonfiction texts. This lesson can be used alone or with the How to Find the Main Idea lesson plan.

Main Topic

What better way to represent what you’ve learned than through an infographic? In this lesson, students read nonfiction texts then create infographics to share the main topics, key ideas, evidence, and more! 

Adventures with Infographics

Tap into children's curiosity by having them record and share key details found in nonfiction texts! This lesson can be used alone or with the Nonfiction Reading: Learning and Recording New Information lesson plan.

Sharing Facts from Nonfiction

Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!

Predict It

What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.

Story vs. Poem

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Searching for Text Features

Your students will love learning about nonfiction texts and the life cycle of a seed with a classic story, simple video, and a cut and paste activity!


Plant Life Cycle: Pumpkins!

In this lesson, students will learn how to get information from pictures in texts. They will describe pictures with a partner and see if their descriptions match the words in the text. This lesson can be used alone or as a support lesson.

Reading Picture Clues

In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?

How Pictures Can Help Us Read

Want to engage students in reading? Give them books that they want to read! This lesson will give you a chance to learn about your readers so that you can best support them to become fluent readers. 

Reading Inventories

Kindergarten students will become text feature detectives as they hunt for the different text features found in nonfiction books in this fun reading lesson.

Are You a Text Detective?

Use this lesson plan as a stand alone or support lesson to introduce or review nonfiction text features to your ELs.

All About Nonfiction

This lesson plan teaches students about Jean-Michel Basquiat and his life as a child. First, students will listen to a story and figure out the main topic and details. Next, students will be asked to think deeply about what it means to be an artist and some of the types of art they like to create. Perfect for first graders and second graders, the lesson Black Artists: Basquiat highlights reading informational texts and building vocabulary.

Black Artists: Basquiat

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing Text Features

Use this helpful introduction to going on a picture walk and making predictions as a stand alone or pre lesson for the **Reading Without Words** lesson plan.

Going on a Picture Walk

In this fun literacy lesson, your ELs will get to review or learn all about the parts of a book! This can be a stand alone or support lesson for the lesson What We Like About Stories.

Early Literacy Concepts: Parts of a Book

In this fun compare and contrast lesson plan, preschool students will dive into the world of cows! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the  **Imagination Real or Make Believe** lesson plan.

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