Fiction or Nonfiction?

NONFICTION books are...

• Stories
• Made-up
• Facts & information
• written from the author's imagination

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

FICTION books are

• Fake (made up)
• Factual
• Informative
• full of real photographs, documents, and are always indexed

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

This book explains how to play tennis. It is...

• Nonfiction
• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Zapato Power is about a boy who finds a pair of magic sneakers that let him do superhuman things.
It is...

• Nonfiction
• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

If a book's call number starts with F, E, or ER it is

• Nonfiction
• Fiction

If you see a number in a book's call number (255.1, for example), it is

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

NONFICTION books are kept in this order

• Alphabetical by the Author's last name
• Alphabetical by the book's subject
• In number order by their assigned DEWEY DECIMAL NUMBER
• In order by the year they were published

FICTION books are kept in this order

• rainbow order for the color of their spine
• number order for their Dewey Dewey Decimal Number
• alphabetical by the author's last name
• alphabetical by the author's first name

Picture Books, (also called "everyone books" because their call number starts with "E") are...

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

The Dewey Decimal System puts NONFICTION books in order by their _________.

• subject
• author
• color
• size