Notice and Note Nonfiction Signposts

For nonfiction, all of the following are Big Questions EXCEPT

• What surprised me?

• What does the author think I already knew?

• What is the main idea?

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

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

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CCSS.RI.6.2

The question for nonfiction, "What did the author think I already knew?" is a way for us to do what?

• Stop reading
• Blame the author for what he assumes we know
• Solve an equation
• Turn and talk to a partner

If the challenges what I know about a subject, I agree with the author
True or False

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.8

If the author confirms what I already knew, I agree with what the text is saying.
True or False

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.6

When you read with the question in mind, "What Surprised Me?" the information you find must be a HUGE surprise.
True or False

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.6.3

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

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.8

By contrast, although, alternatively, however, nevertheless, otherwise, then again
These are all examples of what?

• Contractions
• Verbs
• Signal Words
• Adverbs

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

Quoted Words fall into all of the categories EXCEPT

• Voice of Authority
• Titles and Headings
• Personal Perspective
• Others' Words

For nonfiction, what all of the following are Big Questions EXCEPT

• What surprised me?
• What does the author think I already knew?
• What is the main idea?
• What challenged, changed, or confirmed what I already knew?

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6