fiction or nonfiction?
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FICTION OR
NONFICTION?
An HCA Library Workshop Presentation
Stories?Informati
on?What’s the difference?
We read many, many different books.
All of the books we read can be sorted into
two groups.
Fiction Nonfiction
What is the difference
between fiction and nonfiction
books
Fiction books are books that tell a story.
Fiction books tell made-up, make-believe stories that
are not real.
Fiction books are written to entertain.
The opposite of fiction books are nonfiction
books.
They give you facts about something,
leaves
roots
and are written to explain and give you information.
If you are reading a
story about making
friends with a unicorn,
it is a made-up, make-believe story because
there is no such animal.
It is fiction!
It is entertaining you.
it is fiction because
you know that cows
can’t really
jump over the
moon!
If you are
reading about a cow that jumped over the moon,
it is nonfiction because
it is explaining the facts
of milking a cow. It is giving you
information.
If you are
reading about how a farmer milks a
cow,
it is nonfiction because
it is giving you informati
on.
If you are reading
about how and why a
bee gathers nectar from
a flower,
These are the differences between fiction and nonfiction books:
Fiction Nonfiction
FictionMake-believe
stories
FictionMake-believe
storiesEntertain you
FictionMake-believe
storiesEntertain you
Not real
NonfictionTrue
information
NonfictionTrue
informationFacts
NonfictionTrue
informationFacts
Explain
Now it’s time to practice deciding if a book is fiction
(not real) or nonfiction (real). Return to your
Library Workshop page and click on the gnome.The End!