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Your task is to identify the four different areas of our media center and explain what is found in each area.

Banks County ElementaryMedia Center

The Media Center at Banks County Elementary School is arranged in four sections:

– Easy (Picture Books) Fiction

– Fiction (Chapter Books)

– Non-fiction (Information Books)

– Biography

Now it’s time to talk about the parts of our Media Center!The Media Center in BCES is

arranged in four sections:

– Easy (Picture Books) Fiction

– Fiction (Chapter Books)

– Non-fiction (Information Books)

– Biography

Picture Book Section

• The first section is called Picture Books. This section is fiction.

Picture Books• Picture books use illustrations (pictures)

to tell lots of the story.• The illustrations in picture books

sometimes tell different parts of the story than the words do.

• Illustrations are very, very important in picture books. Sometimes they are even more important than the words!

• Picture books are ‘made-up’ stories from the authors’ imagination.

Picture book example

• This is a made-up story with lots of pictures. The pictures are a very important part of the story.

Chapter Book Section• Another

section is called Chapter Books. This section is fiction.

Chapter Books• Chapter Books usually have more words

than picture books, and fewer pictures. • In chapter books, the words are more

important for the story than the pictures are.

• Chapter books usually have more words on each page than picture books do, and the story is long.

• Chapter books are ‘made-up’ stories (fiction).

Non-fiction (Information) Section

• The third section is Non-Fiction Books (also called Information Books)

Non-Fiction / Information Books

• Non-Fiction (Information) books are stories that tell about things that are real.

• Non-Fiction books have real places and real things in them.

• Non-Fiction can be about people, about places, about things – they can be history, or geography, crafts, sports, weather, science fair projects, even dinosaurs . . .

Read this to practice• Non-Fiction (Information) books are

stories that tell about things that are real.

• Non-Fiction can be about people, about places, about things – they can be history, or geography, crafts, sports, weather, science fair projects, even dinosaurs . . .

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Biography Section

• The fourth section is called Biographies. Biographies area kind of non-fiction.

Biographies

• Biographies are about real people.• Biographies tell about the life of a

person that lived in the past or even one that lives now.

• Biographies are true, and they are about real people, not made-up characters.

Biography example

• This is a biography about a real person. (Michael Jordon)