Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and respond by providing evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the difference in point of view between a biography and autobiography.
3rd Grade Reading - Literary Nonfiction Lesson
Literary Nonfiction
Informational texts that tell a story are examples of literary nonfiction. These are based on true facts and tell about a real person and the real events in the person’s life.
Biography
A biography is the story of a person’s life told by someone else. It is written in the third person point of view.
Examples: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, John Adams by David McCullough
Autobiography
An autobiography is the story of a person’s life told in his or her own words. It is written in the first person point of view.
Examples: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela