Nonfiction

What is nonfiction?

• writing that is made up or imagined

• writing that is partly made up or imagined

• writing that relates facts and opinions about the real world

• writing that is confusing and no one understands it

What is narrative nonfiction?

• writing that tells a partly true story

• writing that doesn't tell a story

• writing that tells a true story

• writing that tells an imagined story

What is a biography?

• the true story of someone's life written by someone else

• the true story of the author's life

• the mostly true story of someone's life written by someone else

• a short piece of writing

What is an autobiography?

• the true story of someone's life written by someone else

• the imagined story of someone's life

• the true story of the author's life

• the mostly true story of the author's life

What is informative writing?

• writing that tells a true story

• writing that supports a claim by giving logical reasons and evidence

• writing that provides information about a variety of subjects in a variety of forms

• writing that is the true story of someone's life, written by someone else

Words or phrases that divide an epository text into smaller parts. 

• Subheading
• Heading
• Title
• Caption

Choose the clue words that indicate compare and contrast.

• therefore, cause, effect, consequently
• later, then, next, Monday
• similar, different, common, on the other hand
• possibility, struggle, hope, problem

Tags

CCSS.RI.K.9

Choose the clue words that indicate cause and effect.

• next, after, then, first, last
• struggle, promise, problem, solution
• consequently, as a result of, so, therefore
• similar, common, compare, contrast

Choose the clue words that indicate sequential order.

• first, next, finally,

• cause, effect, as a result of, because

• problem, solution, promise, struggle

• compare, contrast, similar, different

the words "best" or "worst" often indicate

• problem/solution
• opinion
• fact
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.W.K.1