Teaching fiction and non-fiction to Kindergarteners

📚 Teaching Fiction and Non-Fiction to Kindergarteners

This lesson plan helps kindergarteners understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. It uses engaging activities to make learning fun and interactive.

🎯 Objectives

• 🍎 Students will be able to define fiction and non-fiction.
• 🧸 Students will be able to identify examples of fiction and non-fiction books.
• 🗣️ Students will be able to explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction in their own words.

📝 Materials

• 📖 A variety of fiction books (e.g., picture books, fairy tales).
• 📰 A variety of non-fiction books (e.g., books about animals, plants, or historical events).
• 🖍️ Crayons or markers.
• ✂️ Scissors.
• glue sticks.
• 📃 Worksheets with pictures to sort.

☀️ Warm-up (5 minutes)

• 🗣️ Ask students what kinds of stories they like to read.
• ❓ Introduce the terms "fiction" and "non-fiction" in a kid-friendly way. For example, "Fiction stories are made up, like fairy tales. Non-fiction stories are real and teach us about things, like animals."

✏️ Main Instruction (20-25 minutes)

• 📖 Read aloud one fiction book and one non-fiction book.
• 🙋 After each book, ask questions to help students identify whether it was fiction or non-fiction. For example: "Did this story really happen?" "Did the author make up the characters and events?" "Did we learn something real from this book?"
• 🖼️ Use picture sorts. Provide worksheets with pictures of objects, animals, or characters. Have students sort the pictures into "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" columns.
• 🎭 Act out scenarios. Create simple scenarios and ask students if they are more likely to find them in a fiction or non-fiction book. For example: "A talking dog" (Fiction) vs. "A book about the solar system" (Non-Fiction).

✅ Assessment

• ✍️ Have students draw a picture of something they learned from a non-fiction book and write a sentence about it.
• 🗣️ Ask students to tell you the difference between fiction and non-fiction in their own words.
• 🧩 Provide a list of book titles and have students identify each as either fiction or non-fiction.