What Am I?

1. What Am I? Fiction or Nonfiction

2. Library Media Center Lesson Plan for SOL English K.8 30 Minute Lesson Produced during Building Critical Thinkers Workshop 2006 Abingdon, Virginia Jamie Brown Marcia Davis Amber Hardy Kathy Overbay

3. GOAL The student will demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction.

4. OBJECTIVES • Distinguish fact from make believe • Use electronic card catalog to locate fiction and nonfiction sources • Locate the fiction and nonfiction sections of the library

5. Resources Needed: • Nonfiction book for read aloud • Fiction book for read aloud • Fiction and Nonfiction signs with graphics • Groups of fiction/nonfiction books for sorting • LCD projector • Two baskets for sorting • Classroom teacher

6. Benchmark Assessments • At story rug • At tables • At conclusion of class

7. Cross-Curricular Connections • Science • Math • Social Studies

8. Strategies • Ask questions to assess students’ background knowledge • Read fiction and nonfiction selections to students • Give clues to help students differentiate between fiction and nonfiction

9. Strategies (continued) • Use signs for visual reference • Hold up examples of fiction and nonfiction stories, ask class to identify • Ask students how they might separate fiction and nonfiction books in the library • Use LCD projector to show class the electronic card catalog to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction call numbers

10. Assessment • Breakout in small groups where class will work collaboratively to sort books into two groups: fiction and nonfiction.

11. Assessment (continued) • Take a book from sorted piles to appropriate section in library and place in basket.

12. Final Assessment • Line students up for classroom teacher and have students explain what they learned about fiction and nonfiction.