LESSON SEVEN:  Using a Venn diagram to Compare Fiction and Nonfiction Characteristics

Using a Venn diagram, students compare what they have discovered about a nonfiction text compared to a fiction text.

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

R1I:  Identify connections, with assistance, between text ideas—similarities and differences in various real and make-believe works (fiction and nonfiction) and text ideas and own experiences.

R3C:  In responds to text develop questions to clarify meaning, answer questions and discuss text, recognizes important information, and identify supporting details.

LESSON MATERIALS

Sources of Literature

§         None

Supplies

• Story Map Chart of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Nonfiction Characteristics Chart from previous lesson
• Venn diagram on chart paper.  Draw one circle blue and label Fiction. Draw one circle red and label Nonfiction. 
•  Chart paper

Handouts

• Story Map
• Venn diagram

Vocabulary

• fiction
• nonfiction

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Make mental notes of students’ understanding of the difference between fiction and nonfiction, which will be recorded later in anecdotal notes and on a checklist of all unit objectives.  At the end of this lesson, record your observations of students’ understanding of the difference between fiction and nonfiction.  Notes from this observation and others can be used to rate each student using the checklist at the end of this unit.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1.        Gather in the read aloud area and gain attention of students by using a class signal.

2.     At this point  review the story map and list of nonfiction characteristics.

3.   Complete the Venn diagram as the students respond to the following questions.

4.  Make an anchor chart on Fiction in blue and on Nonfiction in red to keep in the room for students to refer to in the future.