Amberly Media Center

Oh no! A tornado hit the Amberly Elementary Media Center and all the books are on the floor. They need to be sorted, but where do we begin?

2nd graders agreed that we should first separate the Fiction from the Non Fiction. We first decided that Fiction books tell a story. The story could be “realistic” or it could be “make-believe.” Either way, we agreed the author wrote the story to entertain the reader. Non Fiction books are written to provide information. Non Fiction books give facts about a subject.

When we sorted the books, we found some of them were tricky. Some of the books told a story AND gave information. Some of the Non Fiction books gave information about things that might or might not be true like Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and ghosts.