Fiction and Nonfiction Check

writing that presents facts & ideas, or explains a process

• fiction

• nonfiction

writing that tells a story or might entertain the reader

• fiction
• nonfiction

Heading, Index, Glossary, Sidebar

• parts of fiction
• parts of nonfiction
• parts of both fiction and nonfiction

Setting, Plot, Conflict, Climax, Resolution

• parts of fiction
• parts of nonfiction
• parts of both fiction and nonfiction

Title, Table of Contents, Summary, Purpose

• parts of fiction
• parts of nonfiction
• parts of both fiction and nonfiction

Choose the clue words that indicate COMPARE and CONTRAST.

• therefore, cause, effect, consequently
• later, then, next, Monday
• similar, different, common, on the other hand
• possibility, struggle, hope, problem

True or False: You can only summarize fiction.

• True
• False

What should you include when writing a summary for a NONFICTION text?

• characters
• solution
• details and facts
• conflict

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing
• the entire text told in your own words
• a dumb thing that teachers make you write
• the main ideas and important details of a text

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words
• summary being shorter than the text
• exact words from the text
• including main ideas only