Exploring Nonfiction
A Grade 3 ELA worksheet focused on understanding and identifying nonfiction texts, their characteristics, and common examples.
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Exploring Nonfiction
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What is Nonfiction?
Nonfiction books and articles tell us about real people, real places, real events, and real things. They give us facts and information. When you read nonfiction, you are learning about the world around you!
1. Which of these is a characteristic of nonfiction?
It tells a make-believe story.
It gives true facts and information.
It has talking animals.
It is always a fairy tale.
2. Which of these books would most likely be nonfiction?
A story about a dragon.
A book about different kinds of dinosaurs.
A cartoon comic book.
A book of magical spells.
Complete the sentences using words related to nonfiction.
3. Nonfiction books give us about real things.
4. We can learn about real and from nonfiction.
5. A book about space and planets is an example of a text.
Decide if each statement is True or False.
6. Nonfiction stories are made up.
True
False
7. An encyclopedia is a nonfiction book.
True
False
8. Name two things you might learn from a nonfiction book about animals.
Use the words in the bank to complete the sentences below.
9. A book about the life of Abraham Lincoln is a book.
10. Nonfiction books teach us and give us about topics.