Nonfiction Notice and Note

When you are reading and notice the author quoted a Voice of Authority, a Personal Perspective, or cited Other’s Words this is a

• Contrast and contradiction

• Word Gap

• Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

When you are reading and the author shows you a difference between what you know and what is happening in the text the author is using . . .

• Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Numbers and statistics

Authors used quoted words to . . .

• Help you think about the author’s point of view, purpose, bias, or conclusions.

• Give perspective, facts and opinions, or a generalization

• Give credibility to their claim

• All of the Above

Which of the questions below is NOT a Notice and Note question?

• What challenged, changed or confirmed what I already knew?

• What surprised me?

• What did the author think I already knew?

• What's the big idea?

At Holbrook Middle School, the cafeteria sells over 3,000 water bottles a year.
This is an example of which signpost?

• Quoted words

• Extreme language

• Numbers & stats

• Contrasts & Contradictions

True or false: we should keep an open mind when reading nonfiction

• True

• False

Nonfiction is the group of texts in which the author makes claims or assertions to readers about the reader's world, the real word, real people, real experiences, ideas or beliefs.

• True

• False

Contrasts and Contradictions for Nonfiction include texts with information that contradicts or contrasts with what I know, think, or experience 
True or False

• True

• False

Nonfiction is a body work in which the author purports to tell us the real world, a real experience, a real person, an idea, or a belief.
True or False

• True

• False

When you are reading and the author uses a word or phrase you don’t know. This is a

• Contrast and contradiction

• Absolute language

• Word gap

• Quoted Words