Fiction or Nonfiction? Sort, Read & Write

Printable activities · Grades 1–3 · PDF, 15 pages · $3

Students learn to tell fiction from nonfiction by looking for clues instead of guessing. It starts with an anchor chart (a full version plus a fill-in student version), then moves into two cut-and-paste sorts and a ten-sentence fiction-or-nonfiction check.

In the Clue Hunt, students read a short fiction passage and a short nonfiction passage and write the clue that gave it away. Then they find text features on a nonfiction page, compare two books, fill in a Venn diagram, write one sentence of each, log their reading and finish with exit tickets.

What's included

• Fiction vs. Nonfiction anchor chart + fill-in student version
• ✂ Genre sort (12 cards)
• ✂ Book title sort (12 original titles)
• Fiction or Nonfiction? sentence sort
• Clue Hunt: 2 short passages with evidence
• Nonfiction text features page
• Compare It T-chart
• Venn diagram
• Write One of Each
• My Book Log
• Exit tickets
• Answer key and a suggested 5-day plan

How teachers use it

• A one-week mini unit for 1st–3rd grade
• Library and genre lessons
• Reading centers and partner work