Grade: 1st grade

Subject: English Language Arts- Reading

School: Harvey Dunn Elementary

Lesson: Whole Class/Small Group Fiction Vs. Nonfiction

Standard: 1.RL.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a
wide reading of a range of text types.

Learning Target:
Identify and describe the purposes of reading a fiction book.
Identify and describe the purposes of reading a nonfiction book.

Type of Lesson: (Whole Class Read Aloud, Whole Class Shared Reading..)
Whole Class Read Aloud, Partner read,
Strategy I will Model or Use from Keys to Comprehension:
Inferring, Fix up strategies- using picture clues
Standards w/Assessments Named
Standard

Anchor

Reading Standards for

Literature

Key ideas and Details

Specific Standard

Assessment Tool

1.RL.5

Independent Practice Worksheet

Craft & Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Explain major differences

between books that tell stories
and books that give
information, drawing on a wide
reading of a range of text
types.
Reading Standards for
Information

Range of Reading & Level of Text

Complexity
Key ideas and Details
Craft & Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Reading Standards:
Foundational Skills

Range of Reading & Level of Text

Complexity
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Fluen

Writing Standards

Text Types & Purposes

Production & Distribution of Writing
Research to Build and Present
Knowledge
Range of Writing

RI.1.9.

Identify basic
similarities in
and differences
between two
texts on the
same topic (e.g.,
in illustrations,
descriptions, or
procedures).

Whole class discussion, independent wor

Independent Practice Worksheet

Speaking & Listening

Comprehension & Collaboration

Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas

Materials and Resources Needed:

Natures Food Chain: what Polar Bears Eat by Joann Mattern
Baby Polar by Yannick Murphy
Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan Landon
Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston
Additional Various Fiction and nonfiction books from the school library (with similar
subjects)

A. The Lesson 50 minutes

1. Introduction 5 minutes
Getting attention

Relating to past experience and/or knowledge

Creating a need to know

Sharing objective, in general terms

My favorite animal is the POLAR BEAR. Someday I want to travel to Alask

in real life. Because I am interested in learning more about Polar Bears, I ne
to read that might give me more information, so I know where to find a Pola
my trip. Can you help me with this?
Reading can help us in so many ways, but one important way it can help us
information. All books can give information, but there is a difference betwee
nonfiction and fiction books give us. Does anyone know the difference betw
nonfiction book and a fiction book?
I told you I need to learn as much about Polar Bears as I can, so Ill need yo
books will give me the most information based on my purpose.
Today we will match different books to our purpose- our reason for reading.

2. Methods (core of the lesson) 40 minutes

Before Reading

During Reading

After Reading

Before we start reading, it is important to think about our purpose. Do you remember what my purp
Polar Bears is? (student response) Thats right- I want to learn about Polar Bears so I know as much
when I go to Alaska. (write this down on the board)
I have two books about Polar Bears, I will read a section of each. (write down the titles under the pu
with a line between each) What I want you to help me with is to fill in the information that we get f
can decide which one is a better book to read for my purpose.
Read the first passage, modeling strategies used to get information from text and illustration. Ideall
oh I see the polar bear is on ice in this picture, so this book is telling me they like to be on ice? Wh
the picture?
Do the same for the nonfiction, this time modeling nonfiction strategies (important words are highli
pictures)
Write down what you learn from each book under each title
Compare the two. Ask students which book provided the most information. Discuss how nonfiction
information that you could use, and that the fiction book gave you information, but it was more for
noticed that the nonfiction book gave us direct information, when the fiction story gave us more ind
to dig a little deeper. The nonfiction author didnt tell us a lot of information directly in the storys t
skills of inferring to find a lot of the information.
Talk about the purpose for reading fiction and nonfiction (to learn vs. for entertainment)

Independent Practice Worksheet

Tell students that they will be practicing this skill with partners. Give each partner group 2 books on
fiction and one non-fiction. Ask them to fill out what information they find from each book on the w
pictures and text to find information.
3. Closure What did the students learn from this lesson? 5 minutes
Today we learned about how different books can be used for different purposes, and
some of the main differences between fiction and nonfiction. When you are choosing
books to read for independent reading, consider your purpose for reading before you
choose a book. If you want to learn about a subject, the best book for you is probably
A. Assessment-Did your students understand the lesson? What was you evidence?
Are students able to find one piece of meaningful information from the images and
text in both the fiction and nonfiction book? Are they able to determine the purpose
for Steps-Based
reading nonfiction
vs. fictionwhat
text?
B. Next
on your assessments
do you need to work on next meeting?
The next focus would be on finding information within nonfiction text to meet specific
needs (each group given a research question, and would be required to find books that
would help them answer the question)
C. Back Pocket Idea
Have students find different fiction and nonfiction books (or other text, such as newspapers, magazines) at home
and think about the purpose for each. Have them bring these thoughts to class for discussion in class tomorrow.
(even better if they can bring the material to share with class)

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