Compare Fiction and Nonfiction

“Hitching a Ride,” “LAFFF,” and “Kids Are Inventors, Too” tell about inventions. Compare and contrast how the fiction and nonfiction selections are different. Use examples from the selections to support your ideas.

How It Works

Collect and Organize Information To compare information across selections, organize it in a chart.

Practice Together

Study and Summarize the Information To write your summary, turn the information from each column into a paragraph. Here is the beginning of a summary comparing the selections.

Try It!

Now fill in the missing information in the chart. Write a summary comparing why the author wrote each selection. You can use this frame to help.

“Hitching a Ride,” “LAFFF,” and “Kids Are Inventors, Too” are different genres. LAFFF is ______. The other two are ______. Different genres are written for different reasons. The author wrote LAFFF to ______. The author does this by ______. “Hitching a Ride” and “Kids Are Inventors, Too” were written to ______. The authors do this by ______.