Nonfiction Text

What is a NONFICTION text?

• Writing that is created from the imagination

• Writing that is based on facts, real events, real people, and true stories.

What is each labeled part of the text?

• #1: Subheading

  #2: Heading

  #3: Vocab word

  #4: Glossary

• #1: Heading

  #2: Subheading

  #3: Vocab word

  #4: Glossary

• #1: Caption

  #2: Subheading

  #3: Glossary

  #4: Vocab Word

Why is it helpful to know the text features in nonfiction texts? (select all that apply)

• You can find parts of the text easily

• You can understand a text better

• You will like the text better

• You can figure out what is important in a text

Which are examples of NONFICTION texts? (select all that apply!)

• History Books

• Travel Guides

• Science Fiction

• Textbooks

Text that is not fictional and is designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain. It is based on fact.

• Drama

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

A nonfiction text written, usually in the first person, about a period in the author's life.

• Memoir

• Travelogue

• Editorial

• Biography

Created to inform, describe or explain

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Created to present life experiences

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Which is an example of a NONFICTION book?

• A book with tips on traveling to Paris, France

• A romance novel set in Paris

What is a SUBHEADING?

• Words underneath or next to a picture that describes what is going on in the image.

• A smaller part of the text that introduces a more specific topic.

• A part of a text that tells the reader what a text is going to be about