Fiction vs NonFiction Fiction What is Fiction FICTION

Fiction vs. Non-Fiction

Fiction

What is Fiction? FICTION is a story that is: FROM IMAGINATION FAKE NOT REAL MAKE BELIEVE

Genres of Fiction Mystery (Nancy Drew) Horror (Goosebumps) Fantasy (Harry Potter) Science-fiction (Star Wars) Myths, Fairytales, Legends (Cinderella) Historical Fiction (Son of Liberty)

Features of Fiction • Characters • Setting • Problem/solution • Beginning, Middle, and End • Drawings or cartoons

What is Non-Fiction? NON-FICTION is information that is… TRUE

Newspapers Dictionaries Encyclopedias

Textbooks Magazines Non-Fiction Books

Features of Non-Fiction • • • Table of Contents Glossary Index Headings Bold Print Photographs/Real Pictures Charts, Graphs, and Maps Captions Fact and Opinion

Glossary

Photographs/Real Pictures • They are real pictures or photographs, not drawings or cartoons. • Found throughout the text

Charts, Graphs, and Maps • Illustrations of important information • Found throughout the text

Captions • A caption explains what a picture, chart, graph, or map is about. • Captions are found near a picture, chart, graph, or maps Example of a caption: This is an image of a monarch caterpillar taken at a butterfly garden in Florida.

• Explain how the following books on the next slide are either fiction or nonfiction.