Sunday, October 12, 2014

Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

Also, we discussed different types of genres in Reader's Workshop.
We focused on two different types of texts:
-Fiction
-Non-fiction
 
We discussed how each genre has different features:
 
Fiction has:
 characters
settings
events
problems
solutions
It is a made-up story.
Illustrations
 
Non-fiction has:
Real photographs
These texts are about REAL things like:
-people
-places
-events
-animals and insects
The have Table of Contents and Glossaries.
We learn from these texts.
We gather new information from these books.
They list facts and have labels in the pictures.
 
We sorted books by fiction and non-fiction.