Nonfiction vs. Fiction – Comparison Anchor Charts
- Year levels
- Years 1–4
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, English
- Topic
- Nonfiction, Fiction
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E4LY03 — identify the characteristic features used in imaginative
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This resource is a set of anchor charts for nonfiction and fiction comparison. This is great to be displaying in your reading classroom and utilised during small group work.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify defining features of nonfiction texts (real, fact-based, table of contents, index, glossary, bold words) versus fiction texts (not real, story-based, characters, setting, problem/solution)
Determine whether a given text is fiction or nonfiction and cite two pieces of supporting evidence for the determination
Teaching tips
Use the completed chart (page 1) for initial instruction, then the fill-in version (page 2) as a recall check.
Pair the genre-identification worksheet with two different texts, since two identical copies are included (pages 3-4).
Skills covered
Genre feature comparison — students distinguish nonfiction features (facts, table of contents, index) from fiction features (characters, setting, problem/solution).
Evidence-based genre determination — the worksheet asks students to justify a fiction/nonfiction classification with two supporting reasons.
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E4LY03 — identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
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Core concepts
Fiction vs. nonfiction
Text features
Story structure
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