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Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing
Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing
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Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing
Learning from others is a huge part of getting better at something, including writing! In this lesson, students will study works by nonfiction authors to enhance their own nonfiction writing.
1st grade
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus
Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus
Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.
5th grade
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What is Nonfiction?
What is Nonfiction?
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What is Nonfiction?
Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.
4th grade
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.
5th grade
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Nonfiction Text Feature Match
Nonfiction Text Feature Match
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Nonfiction Text Feature Match
This worksheet teaches first graders all about common text features of nonfiction writing.
1st grade
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Fiction or Nonfiction?
Fiction or Nonfiction?
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Fiction or Nonfiction?
This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.
1st grade
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Examples of Nonfiction
Examples of Nonfiction
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Examples of Nonfiction
Familiarize with the nonfiction genre by thinking about all the nonfiction you read or see each day.
4th grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Organization
Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Organization
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Organization
Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.
6th grade
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Practice Writing a Conclusion
Practice Writing a Conclusion
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Practice Writing a Conclusion
Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.
5th grade
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid
Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid
Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.
5th grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose
Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose
Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.
6th grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Central Ideas
Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Central Ideas
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Central Ideas
Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.
6th grade
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Create a Nonfiction Big Book
Create a Nonfiction Big Book
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Create a Nonfiction Big Book
Share the pen in this lesson on text features as you work together as a class to create a nonfiction big book. This lesson can be used alone or with the Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing lesson plan.
1st grade
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Writing With a Formal Tone
Writing With a Formal Tone
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Writing With a Formal Tone
Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.
6th grade
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Get Ready to Write Nonfiction
Get Ready to Write Nonfiction
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Get Ready to Write Nonfiction
One of the best ways to prepare for writing is by examining another author’s work. In this activity, students look closely at a nonfiction text and answer questions about what they find in preparation for writing their own.
1st grade
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Discovering Nonfiction Genres
Discovering Nonfiction Genres
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Discovering Nonfiction Genres
Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!
4th grade
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Glossary: Summarizing Nonfiction
Glossary: Summarizing Nonfiction
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Glossary: Summarizing Nonfiction
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing Nonfiction.
5th grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.
6th grade
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Nonfiction Text Features Checklist
Nonfiction Text Features Checklist
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Nonfiction Text Features Checklist
Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.
5th grade
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Writing Prompt: Superstitions
Writing Prompt: Superstitions
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Writing Prompt: Superstitions
In this nonfiction writing exercise, students will consider whether they are superstitious, what superstitions they might hold, and how they feel about superstitions in general.
4th grade
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
Basketball: Nonfiction Text
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Basketball: Nonfiction Text
This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.
5th grade
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Compound Sentences in Nonfiction
Compound Sentences in Nonfiction
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Compound Sentences in Nonfiction
This lesson helps your ELs identify the role of coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences in nonfiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson to Nonfiction Genres.
4th grade
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Nonfiction Genres
Nonfiction Genres
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Nonfiction Genres
In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library.
4th grade
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Classifying Nonfiction Details
Classifying Nonfiction Details
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Classifying Nonfiction Details
As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.
1st grade
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Reading Nonfiction
Reading Nonfiction
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Reading Nonfiction
Explore nonfiction with this set of short and sweet facts on notable people, places and events in history. Young readers can practice taking notes, answering questions and analyzing primary sources.
4th grade
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