Nonfiction and Fiction

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We have been learning about the features of fiction and nonfiction.  Our focus this week was on how to determine if a book is fiction or nonfiction and why it is important to know the difference.

Over the past several weeks, we read numerous books.  We discussed the authors purpose and message.  We also learned about the features of fiction and nonfiction. We created a class double bubble map to compare and contrast these two types of text.  We also went to the library and selected two different books.  One had to be fiction and the other had to be nonfiction. Each student was asked to then provide evidence that their book was fiction or nonfiction and to create a product in Educreations to show their learning.  Below is an example of one of our projects. Tomorrow we will be uploading our projects to our individual blogs and writing about why it is important to be able to tell if a book is fiction or nonfiction.