After we kicked off our nonfiction unit discussing a poster about nonfiction text features and the characteristics of nonfiction. Students then went back to their tables and had to work as a group to sort words into two categories; fiction and nonfiction. The dialogue I heard at each table was wonderfully rich. Good thinking was happening! One of the phrases that the got the best discussion was "fun to read." At first many groups put it in fiction, but then one student at almost every table chimed in and said, "I think nonfiction is fun to read." Students then discovered that some words went in both columns, like "title" and "pictures." The one that read "read front cover to back cover" threw kids for a loop. They thought all books should be read cover to cover, so we discussed that nonfiction books give you permission to skip around and only read the sections or chapters that interest you or that you need for a project. That's why table of contents and the index are so useful!
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