12 x 12 Challenge Handout: The Ins and Outs of Expository Nonfiction

Background
I’ve written an article about the 5 kinds of nonfiction for SLJ:

https://www.slj.com/2018/04/standards/understanding-teaching-five-kinds-nonfiction/

I’ve discussed the 5 kinds of nonfiction in this video created for Colby Sharp’s vlog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vd1XEPu6E

 

5 Kinds of Nonfiction Flashcards

 

Narrative vs. Expository Sample Texts

Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley and Nic Bishop (Scholastic, 1999)

Frog or Toad? How Do You Know? by Melissa Stewart (Enslow, 2011)

Nonfiction Continuum
http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2018/04/classifying-nonfiction-continuum.html

Characteristics of Expository Literature

http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2018/02/behind-books-writing-stem-picture-books_14.html

http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2018/03/behind-books-writing-stem-picture-books_7.html

 

http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2018/02/behind-bookswriting-stem-picture-books.html

http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/2018/05/narrative-vs-expository-writing.html