Introduction to Nonfiction

Nonfiction is

• made up stories

• writing that is fact based

• contains opinions

Some examples of nonfiction are...

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• textbooks

• chapter books

• newspapers

• cookbooks

• reference books

We learned about three different types of nonfiction. What are they?

• biography (autobiography)

• historical fiction

• literary nonfiction

• reference nonfiction

• poetry

What type of nonfiction present detailed information about a specific topic or subject

• Reference nonfiction

• literary nonfiction

• biography

What type of nonfiction informs readers about a well-known person's life or a particular accomplishment of that person?

• reference nonfiction

• literary nonfiction

• biography

What type of nonfiction tells a story that entertains the reader but presents factual information to inform readers

• reference nonfiction

• literary nonfiction

• biography

Read the following passage and identify what type of nonfiction it is.

The Blackness of Black Holes

A black hole is nothing to look at. Literally. If you could somehow take a close-up picture of a black hole, it wouldn't be on for the scrapbook. It would just be the blank . . and black.

The blackness of black holes if peculiar: although there's plenty of light within a black hole, you can't see it from the outside. Yet, there's no wall physically blocking light or bouncing it back in. Instead gravity keeps the light contained.

• reference nonfiction

• literary nonfiction

• biography

Read the following passage and identify what type of nonfiction it is.

Anna Botsford Comstock

Among the Six-Legged

(1854 - 1930)

By the time she was seventeen, Anna was teaching full time. A vistor to her village in upstate New York recognized her intelligence and suggested that she apply to a new university that was open to women as well as men. Anna was afraid that everyone else there would have gone to bigger and better schools. She would miss her parents, and picking apples.

• reference nonfiction

• literary nonfiction

• biography

Read the following passage and identify what type of nonfiction it is.

It's the end of winter, and your pop's lost his job. So every morning before school you scour and streets for firewood, hunched down in an icy wind. But look! Here's a pile of wood, free for the taking - all carted off from the old hotel they tore down at Thirty-fourth and Fifth. Six hundred men are working there - leveling shoveling, hauling, clearing the rubble away. They're getting ready to make something new,...

• Reference Nonfiction

• Literary Nonfiction

• Biography