Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

If an article is narrative nonfiction, it ______________.

• gives the author's opinion

• gives facts about real people and events

• tells a story

• tells about the life of a person

Narrative nonfiction text tells events out of sequence.

• true

• false

Narrative nonfiction includes both primary and secondary sources.

• true

• false

A PRIMARY SOURCE ___________.

• retells information

• provides an audience with facts

• provides first hand information about a topic

• interprets information from another source

A SECONDARY SOURCE ___________.

• provides first hand information about a topic

• retells or interprets information from another source

• is told in first-person point of view

• is used as another source of information

Examples of primary sources are ___________.

Click ALL that apply.

• autobiography

• encyclopedia

• journal/diary

• nonfiction books

Examples of secondary sources are ___________.

• letters

• emails

• encyclopedia

• articles

If the information is FIRSTHAND, which signal words would you see?

• I, me, we

• he, she, them

A diary is a...

• primary source

• secondary source

A website is a....

• primary source

• secondary source