Fiction and Non-Fiction texts

This assignment will have you look at the differences between fiction and non-fiction books you might select for use in your classroom. Fiction books typically have a beginning, middle and end, have plots and characters that develop. Non-fiction books are subject organized, have fact boxes, sidebars, graphs, table of contents, illustrations and captions and an index. Naturally, with preschool children, their level of reading either genre will be limited but this is where the teacher can be extremely effective in creating a good disposition towards reading material. Some web sites to use when you are researching good titles are:
http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2016.aspx
https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/category/books/kids-books
Try also NAEYC, NSTA, TCTM. Each of these professional associations has reference materials dedicated to children’s book titles. I will also use Amazon with subject titles for a list and search Pinterest.
For this assignment, you will choose a non-fiction book related to your topic of study that you have been working with during this course and the topic you submitted in unit 1. The topic I chose to study was pets.
Name the title, author and genre. It would help to add the picture.
Discuss why you chose this title and where you found it.
Record how you will present the book to the class and what the children will do with this information from your selected title. Please think of the questions you might pose to the child or children that would help them focus on the STEM material that might have caused you to select this book. Does this book have any print formats that make this selection especially desirable?
an example of this assignment :
In keeping with my rocks theme, I will select the book Rocks Hard, Soft, Smooth and Rough by Natalie M. Rosinsky. It is a non-fiction book. I chose this book because it fits my topic, has a table of contents, glossary and index. I searched Amazon for rock children’s books and came across this selection which contained points that I wanted to introduce the children namely functions of a non-fiction book. I wanted to introduce why we need a table of contents and as I looked at the book it was organized with the three classifications of rocks, which is part of a lesson I was planning. It had a simple chart which sorted the rocks into groups like color, feels like and uses which had pictures and descriptive words that I would use to build their vocabulary. The book had facts on every page that worked well with the illustrations and large print for easy reading.
I will have this book on the reading rug with several other rock books. I will sit in with the group of children on the rug and inquire about what they see on the pages. I will ask probing questions about what they see on each page. They will respond with ideas from their own background knowledge. I will use this to further their experiences with sorting and classification.