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Fiction and Non-fiction: Made Up or True?

  • Grade 3
  • English Language Arts
  • 55 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-EN-04

A short story about a fox named Pip sits beside two boxes: fiction, a made-up story, and non-fiction, true information about real things. Three clues are marked in the story (a story opening, a fox that talks, and something that cannot happen) to show that it is fiction, and the video ends on the recap that fiction is made up and non-fiction is true.

Concept: Fiction and non-fiction

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Is this text made up, or is it true?

Two big kinds of text are fiction and non-fiction.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Is this text made up, or is it true?

Two big kinds of text are fiction and non-fiction.

Fiction is a story that a writer made up.

Non-fiction gives true information about real things.

To tell them apart, look for clues in the text.

Clue one: “Once upon a time” is how many made-up stories begin.

Clue two: this fox talks, but real foxes cannot talk.

Clue three: climbing up a cloud is something that cannot happen.

It did not really happen, so it is not non-fiction.

So this text is fiction: a story the writer made up.

Fiction is made up, and non-fiction is true.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

English Language Arts, Story/text: functions and genres of stories and other textsBC3-EN-04

Previous: Why a Text Was Written: Finding Its FunctionNext: Text Features: Headings, Captions and Diagrams

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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