NF Intro Lesson


Introduction to Non-Fiction

 

Text: Two or three short current news articles

 

Materials:

 

Development of Learning Activity:

  1. Read the newspaper articles, either aloud or silently.
  2. After articles are read, begin a chart titled, "Features of Non-Fiction." Elicit responses from students. (I taught them the word "objective", when one student said that non-fiction articles are written from a 3rd person POV)
  3. After this initial discussion, switch gears to free write. Chart the rules of free writing.
1. Do not worry about spelling, punctuation or grammar.
2. Write on any topic you like. You may switch topics in the middle of writing.
3. If you can't think of anything to write, just write "I can't think of anything to write", over and over again.

 

Assessment:

 

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