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