Fiction versus Nonfiction

Everything you read is either fiction or nonfiction.

How can you tell the difference?

Fiction is FAKE!

Fiction is make-believe.

Authors use their imaginations to write fiction stories.

In fiction books the pictures are not realistic.

Books with talking animals are fiction.

Books with magic are fiction.

Some examples of fiction include…

Short Stories and Picture Books

Poems

Fairy Tales

The purpose of fiction is to entertain the reader.

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Nonfiction is the opposite of fiction.

Nonfiction is true!

Nonfiction tells you facts.

In nonfiction books the pictures are realistic.

Books that tell you how to do something are nonfiction.

Books about real people and real events are nonfiction.

Books about real things and real places are nonfiction.

Some examples of nonfiction include…

Autobiographies and Biographies

Newspaper Articles

Encyclopedias

The purpose of nonfiction is to inform the reader.

Are you still confused?

Fiction = Not TrueNonfiction = True

Remember that you can only say NO once.