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Strategies for reading Nonfiction

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nonfiction   writing about real people, places, and events  
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informative nonfiction   a type of nonfiction that is written to provide factual information  
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literary nonfiction   a type of nonfiction that is written to be read and experienced in much the same way as fiction  
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autobiography   the true story about a person's life told by that person  
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biography   the true story about a person's life told by someone else  
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essay   a short piece of nonfiction that deals with one subject  
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informal essay   an essay that explains how an author feels about a subject  
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formal essay   a type of essay that is serious and scholarly  
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skimming   quickly reading the main ideas to get an overview: title, heading, words in special type, charts, graphs, timelines  
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scanning   searching for a particular fact or definition  
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