Fiction vs. Non fiction with Reading strategies. Whole lesson Powerpoint presentation. Reading strategy used: Predicting, Gingerbreadman

1. Fiction versus Nonfiction
Primary 2

3. What do you think is the book about?

4. Needle Through a Balloon

5. Predicting
• What do you think will happen to a balloon if
you insert a skewer in it?

6. • Blow up a balloon – not too full – and tie the
opening shut. If you are careful, you should be
able to push the skewer all the way through
the balloon without popping it. Insert the
skewer with a gentle twisting motion into the
end of the balloon opposite the knot.
Continue pushing and twisting the skewer
until the tip emerges from the other end, near
the knot.
• The balloon did not pop.

7. The rubber in the balloon consists of many long
molecules that are linked together. It's similar to
the way all of the noodles in a plate of spaghetti
stick together. These long molecules are called
polymers; when molecules of a polymer are
chemically attached to each other, it is called cross-
linking. These links hold the polymer molecules
together and allow them to stretch…up to a point.
When the force or tension pulling on the cross-
links is too great, they will break, and the polymer
will pull apart.

8. • Look at the rubber near the ends of the balloon
where you first inserted the skewer. Does it look
lighter or darker than the rubber in the rest of the
balloon?
• The rubber at the ends of the balloon is stretched
out less than in the middle of the balloon.
Therefore, there is less force pulling on it. This
allows the tip of the skewer to break some
polymer cross-links, push aside the molecules of
rubber, and slide into the balloon. However,
enough cross-links remain so that the balloon
holds together.

9. • What do you think will happen to the balloon
if you insert the skewer from the side?

10. • In the side of the balloon, there are
fewer polymer molecules. When you
push the tip of the skewer through
the rubber in the side of the balloon
and the skewer breaks a few of the
cross-links, the tension on the
remaining cross-links is too great,
and the balloon pops.

12. The Gingerbread Man
0nce upon a time, there were a little old woman and a
little old man who lived in a little cottage near the river .
The little old woman and the little old man were hungry,
so the little old woman decided to bake a gingerbread
man.
She made a big batch of gingerbread dough, then rolled it
flat and cut it in the shape of a gingerbread man . She
gave him raisins for eyes , a cinnamon drop for a mouth ,
and chocolate chips for buttons . Then she put the
gingerbread man in the oven to bake.
When the gingerbread man was done, the little old
woman opened the oven door,

13. 1. What do you think happened next?

14. but before she could take him out, the
gingerbread man jumped up and ran
through the kitchen and out of the
cottage shouting, "Don't eat me!"

15. • The little old woman ran after the
gingerbread man . "Stop," she yelled. But the
gingerbread man ran even faster, chanting,
"Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch
me, I'm the gingerbread man ."

16. • The gingerbread man ran into the garden and
passed the little old man . "Stop," the little old
man called out, "I want to eat you." But the
gingerbread man ran even faster, chanting,
"I've run away from a little old woman , and I
can run away from you, I can. Run, run as fast
as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the
gingerbread man ."

17. 2. What do you think happened next?

18. • The little old man chased the gingerbread
man , followed by the little old woman . But
the gingerbread man ran too fast for them.

19. • The gingerbread man passed a cow by the
barn . "Stop," the cow mooed, "I want to eat
you."

20. 3. What do you think happened next

21. • But the gingerbread man ran even faster,
chanting, "I've run from a little old woman
and a little old man , and I can run away from
you, I can. Run, run as fast as you can. You
can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man ."
• The cow chased the gingerbread man ,
followed by the little old woman and the little
old man . But the gingerbread man ran too
fast for them.

22. • The gingerbread man passed a horse in the field.
"Stop," the horse neighed, "I want to eat you."
But the gingerbread man ran even faster,
chanting, "I've run from a little old woman and a
little old man and a cow , and I can run away
from you, I can. Run, run as fast as you can. You
can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man ."
• The horse chased the gingerbread man ,
followed by the cow , and the little old woman
and the little old man . But the gingerbread man
ran too fast for them.

23. • Then the gingerbread man reached a wide
river , but he didn't know how to swim.

24. 4. What do you think happened next?

25. • A clever and hungry fox saw the gingerbread
man and said, "Jump on my tail, and I'll take
you across the river !"
• The gingerbread man thought to himself, "I'll
be safe on his tail." So he jumped on the fox's
tail and they started across the river .
• Halfway across the river , the fox barked,
"You're too heavy for my tail, jump on my
back." So the gingerbread man jumped on the
fox's back.

26. 5. What do you think happened next?

27. Soon, the fox said, You're too heavy for my
back, jump onto my nose." So the gingerbread
man jumped on the fox's nose. But as soon as
they reached the riverbank, the fox flipped the
gingerbread man into the air, snapped his
mouth shut, and ate the gingerbread man .
• And that was the end of the gingerbread man.

28. What are we learning for today?
• Tell how to identify if a book is fiction or non
fiction
• define what fiction and non-fiction are.
• Sort books into fiction and nonfiction.

29. • Good readers can tell the difference between
fiction and nonfiction texts. They choose each
for different purposes. Today we will sort
books into categories by fiction and
nonfiction.

30. Vocabulary
Fiction-make believe Nonfiction-real

31. Fiction Nonfiction

32. T-Chart
Fiction Nonfiction

33. Group Work
• 1. Sort the books into two piles: fiction and
nonfiction.
• 2. Discuss the differences of the two book
types
• 3. Choose a book.
• 4. On a piece of paper, write why is it fiction or
non fiction.

34. T-Chart
Fiction
• Drawings/illustrations
• Characters
• Created in an author’s
imagination
• Beginning, Middle and
Ending
• For entertainment
Nonfiction
• fact
• Photographs are real
• Glossary
• Information about the
author
• Table of contents
• For learning

35. What have we learned today?
• Tell how to identify if a book is fiction or non
fiction
• define what fiction and non-fiction are.
• Sort books into fiction and nonfiction.

36. Group the following books into fiction
or nonfiction.

37. Write the title of the book on its
appropriate column.
Fiction
• 1. _______________
• 2._______________
Nonfiction
• 1._________________
• 2._________________
• 3._________________

38. Homework:
• Study more about fiction and nonfiction.