Fiction vs. NF

Purpose to inform or educate may teach you how to do something new.

Literature based on facts

Contains text features - heading, index, glossary.

Contains pictures, charts and diagrams.

May be based on true events but enhances reality.

Contains a table of contents

Contains a problem and a solution

Read to learn more about a topic.

Uses literacy elements - Plot, setting, theme, etc.

Contains a beginning, middle and end (within the story)

Literature based on imagination

Must be read in order (series)