Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Definition can be difficult
because it is an umbrella term.
It includes narratives, expository,
biography, autobiography, and memoirs.
Criteria:
1.
What are the qualifications of the author to
write this piece of text? Why are they able to write this text?
2.
Are the facts accurate? How do you know?
3.
What is the purpose of the book?
4.
How does the organization of the book assist
the readers in locating information? Text features.
5.
What role do visuals play? Text features-how are
they helpful?
Questions to ask:
1.
How would this book be different if it were
written 50 years earlier or 50 years later?
2.
Would this book make a good documentary? Why?
3.
What steps did the author take to research and
write this text?
4.
How would the book be different if it were
written for a different audience i.e. an
adult versus a kindergarten student. What changes would need to be made to
adapt to both?
K: I know that nonfiction is
true, real facts and information. I know that text features help us read and
comprehend nonfiction better because they each have a specific purpose.
W: I learned that the
nonfiction genre goes a lot deeper than I realized. I never thought about the
author, and the qualifications they needed to have in order to write a piece of
text that had all of these particular facts and information. Now it makes me
think who are all of these authors? How do they know all of these facts and information
about a specific person/topic? Where are they getting their information from?
These are things that I never really thought of because I determined since it was
a published book it had to be considered a valid source.
L: I learned that I needed to
work on focusing on the various types of questioning I could ask my students
when working with a nonfiction novel. I never looked at this genre from this
point of view, so it has opened up another area that I need to explore more of.
S: I will share this
information on my blog and in my classroom with my students.
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