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Does anyone have a graphic organizer to cmpare fiction and nonfiction books 
for 1st/2nd grade?  I have looked in MY FAVORITES of (saved) graphic 
organizer sites plus my own personal files. No luck. I have an idea in mind, 
but to coin a phrase,  don't want "to reinvent the wheel" if anyone has one 
to share. OR ideas to create one.

Thanks for sharing !

Robert Joyce
School Librarian/Library Media Specialist
Virginia-Pittsylvania County
rajoyce59@verizon.net

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I used my original idea for the graphic organizer and created my own. Here 
is what I did---- I created a table of two columns ( T chart graphic 
organizer) ----> On the left  side is the fiction column and on the right is 
the nonfiction column. The first block/cell/square for both titles  is the 
bibliographic information--simple--> author and title. Under the fiction 
column in each square is a summary/[paraphrased] of selected pages (single 
page or pages combined) about the idea/concept in the book.   The nonfiction 
column and its blocks are blank other than the first block of bibliographic 
ionformation. I managed to have 2 books ( 1 fic and 1 nf) which happened to 
have similiar information. I read the fiction book and then read the 
nonfiction book which was a very simple/easy book with one line sentences. I 
told the students to listen for the same information found in BOTH books. 
Each student was provided a copy of the organizer, and I had a transparency 
of the organizer. As a class we decided which ideas/sentences listed under 
the fiction column were in any way found [ pictures and/or sentences/text] 
in the nonfiction book. Students simply put a check in the sqaure under the 
nonfiction book title IF the information/fact was found in the nonfiction 
book when compared to the fiction book title. To show the fact was not found 
in the nonfiction book,  students put an X   in the sqaure under the 
nonfiction book.   I did include one example where the students had to infer 
the idea taken from picture in the nonfiction book.   Included in the lesson 
was an alphabetical list of words relating to the topic (  fall) to put in 
ABC order by first letter.{ The lesson was for 1st grade.}

HERE are the replies I got:

I just use a plain old Venn diagram when I do this with my
second-graders.  We fill in the diagram on two successive class days and
then, using the information we've recorded, we write two sentences each
stating why we like fiction and why we like non-fiction.  I project the
Venn template and then each kid has a hard copy to fill in.

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When I was at an elementary school, One of the tings I did was cut out 
pictures from magazines, lamiatd them and then dumped a bunch on tables for 
the kids. Their instructions were to sort the pictures and try to group 
them.  It was the perfect segue into how the nonfiction books are 
shelved--instead of by author, they are by topic.  Then they understood why 
a;; the drawing books were together, why the sports books, were together, 
why the joke books were together, etc.... Just like hey new exactly where to 
look for Cliffords, Berenstain Bears, Seuss, David Shannon, and Junie B 
Jones books.  It is a complex topic to make early childhood kids "get it," 
but at least those kids knew how to brwose for their interests when they 
left my school.

Now that Im in a middle school, I see many students who still don't "get 
it," and i wonder why....perhaps I should do this tried and true activity 
for 7th graders who are now developmentally ready for understanding the 
Dewey system.

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I read Scaredy Squirrel and a nonfiction book about squirrels to 2nd grade. 
Then I had them cut & glue the fiction and nonfiction statements from the 
second document and glue to the appropriate column on the first document.  I 
also plan to have them use the first document and cut fiction and nonfiction 
book covers out of catalogs and glue to the appropriate column.

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How about a double bubble map.  You are essentially putting two bubble maps 
together and the middle bubbles between the two are the characteristics they 
have in common.  We have the Thinking Maps program and this is  the graphic 
organizer for comparing and contrasting. 

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