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Explore lessons that integrate nonfiction into the classroom:

Primary

 * [|Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey]
 * [|Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts]
 * [|As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor]
 * [|Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books]
 * [|Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with Little Red Riding Hood Text Sets]
 * [|Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research]
 * [|Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts]
 * [|The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts]
 * [|From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories]
 * [|Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research]
 * [|Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts]
 * [|Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy]
 * [|Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts]
 * [|Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds]
 * [|Tarantulas]
 * [|Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction]
 * [|Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes!]

Intermediate

 * [|Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text]
 * [|Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills]
 * [|Bridging Literature and Mathematics by Visualizing Mathematical Concepts]
 * [|Critical Perspectives: Reading and Writing About Slavery]
 * [|Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom]
 * [|Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts]
 * [|Great American Inventors: Using Nonfiction to Learn About Technology Inventions]
 * [|Guided Comprehension: Self-Questioning Using Question-Answer Relationships]
 * [|History Comes Alive: Using Social Studies to Improve Fluency and Comprehension]
 * [|Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry]
 * [|Looking for the History in Historical Fiction: An Epidemic for Reading]
 * [|Native Americans Today]
 * [|No Teachers Allowed: Student-Led Book Clubs Using QAR]
 * [|Question and Answer Books—From Genre Study to Report Writing]
 * [|Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension]
 * [|Traveling Terrain: Comprehending Nonfiction Text on the Web]
 * [|Using Science Texts to Teach the Organizational Features of Nonfiction]
 * [|Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing]
 * [|Writing and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident]

Middle School

 * [|Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern]
 * [|Developing a Definition of Reading through Investigation in Middle School]
 * [| An Exploration of Text Sets: Supporting All Readers]
 * [|Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions]
 * [|Myth and Truth: The “First Thanksgiving”]
 * [|Putting the Truth in Writing]
 * [|Tenement Life: Mapping Texts and Making Models]
 * [|Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction]
 * [|Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts]

High School

 * [|Adding Support and Detail Without Getting Arrested!]
 * [|Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text]
 * [|Having My Say: A Multigenre Autobiography Project]
 * [|Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction]

Research Skills
Citing Sources Nonfiction Evaluation Inferring Writing Guides = =
 * Primary
 * Intermediate
 * [|Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources]
 * [|Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll]
 * [|Research Building Blocks: “Cite Those Sources!”]
 * [|Research Building Blocks: Hints about Print]
 * Middle School
 * [|Citation Machine]
 * [|Research and Documenting Sources]
 * Nonfiction Book Evaluation Form ([|PDF])
 * Organizer for Inferring ([|PDF])
 * [|Writing Guides]

Teacher Starters
= = = = =Teacher Tools= > =Further Reading= Use Google Books to preview books that might be useful for teaching the use of nonfiction. For instance, do a [|Google Books] search for "nonfiction comprehension" and you'll find books containing lots of ideas. Examples include: Bamford, Rosemary & Kristo, Janice. **Checking Out Nonfiction K-8: Good Choices for Best Learning**. Christopher-Gordon, 2000. Block, Cathy Collin, Rodgers, Lori L., Johnson, Rebecca B. **Comprehension Process Instruction: Creating Reading Success in Grades K-3**. Guilford Press, 2004. Camp, Deanne.[| It Takes Two: Teaching with Twin Texts of Fact and Ficton]. The Reading Teacher, 53(5), 400, Feb 2000. Daniels, Harvey. Literacture Circles" Voice and Choice in the Student-Centered Classroom Stenhouse, 1994. Duke, N.K. and Pearson, D. “Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension.” In A.E. Farstrup & S.J. Samuels (Eds.) **What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction** (3rd ed. pp. 205-242). Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2002. Elliott, Joan B. and Dupuis, Mary M. [|Young Adult Literature in the Classroom: Reading It, Teaching It, Loving It]. International Reading Association, 2002. Greathouse, Lisa. **Comprehension and Critical Thinking**, Grade 4. Shell Education, 2007. Harvey, Stephanie. “Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World.” **Language Arts** 80(1), (September 2002): 12–22. Harvey, Stephanie. [|Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research Grades 3-8]. Stenhouse Publishers, 1998. Johnson, D. & Johnson, R. **The Achieving Student in the Heterogeneous Leanring Groups**, 1986. Moss, Barbara. [|Exploring the Literature of Fact]. Guilford Press, 2002. National Reading Panel. **Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction** (National Institute of Health Pub. No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000. Stead, Tony. **Is That a Fact: Nonfiction Writing K–3**. Stenhouse, 2002. Stead, Tony & Duke, Nell. [|Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonfiction K05]. Stenhouse, 2006 Taberski, Sharon. [|Fact & Fiction: Read Aloud]. Taberski, Sharon. **On Solid Ground: Strategies for Teaching Reading K-3**. Heinemann, 2000.
 * Award winning books
 * [|Orbis Pictus Award] for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English - 2009 award for //**Amelia Earhart:The Legend of the Lost Aviator** by// Shelley Tanaka
 * [|National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Tradebooks]
 * [|List of Nonfiction Awards] from Wikipedia
 * Lists of Pathfinders
 * [|Example Pathfinders]
 * Pathfinders - [|42explore], [|Emints] - [|alphabetically], [|by grade level], [|Pathfinder Links]
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 * [|Nonfiction Reading Comprehension 1-2] by Christine Dugan
 * [|Nonfiction Reading Comprehension 3-4] by Pam Jennett
 * [|Nonfiction Reading Comprehension 5-6] by Sarah McFadden Fornara, Sarah Fomara