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Fiction and Non-Fiction Library Sort

Fiction and Non-Fiction Library Sort
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Description

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.
 

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

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

VCELA141

Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

VCELY154

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

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.
 

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