Part 1: Venn Diagram

Create a Venn diagram comparing essential qualities of grade-appropriate nonfiction and expository text.

Part 2: Learning Activities

Teaching nonfiction and expository text requires focusing on specific reading comprehension skills including:

• Main idea
• Context
• Sequence
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Fact and opinion
• Vocabulary
• Following directions
• Inferences
• Drawing conclusions

Below the diagram, create two learning activities for your selected grade level. Select one nonfiction and one expository text. For each text, create a learning activity that focuses on two reading skills. Include an assessment method (formal or informal) that would measure student learning of the desire skill