Fiction/Non-Fiction Utilizing Fishbone Diagram

Standard: To promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.



Workshop Model: Select a book to read to the class. Teach students elements of fiction and non-fiction. Read the book. Divide students up into four groups. Project the Fishbone Diagram on the screen. Ask the students to use the Fishbone diagram as a guide to give one factor and the elements to support.

Ask each group to send one member at a time to give factor and elements to support. After each group has entered. Discuss each factor, clarifying as you go. After discussion, decide if the book is fiction or non-fiction.

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