Fiction and Non-Fiction Library Sort
This worksheet will assist students when learning to identify the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.
Students will work independently to identify and sort different fiction and non-fiction books. They are also given the opportunity to draw their own examples. This is a terrific activity to do after using the Fiction vs Non-Fiction Sort cards.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand texts can be in many forms such as signs, books and digital texts.
- We are learning to understand texts can be in many forms and that stories and informative texts have different purposes.
- We are learning to identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts, i.e. what is real or imaginary.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLA03
9
Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
AC9EFLY03
9
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
ACELA1430
8.4
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
ACELY1648
8.4
Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
ENe-7B
old
Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
ENE-PRINT-01
new
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
ENE-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Some students may benefit from working in a small group with a teacher or classroom helper to discuss each of the different books and why they would be fiction or non-fiction.
Extensions
Ask students to help sort the books in your classroom library into fiction and non-fiction texts.