Listening for Personal Preferences depends on what your personal preferences are. Find the style of writing you like the best and then read books according to your personal preferences.

Fiction
Fiction is writing that is not real, but is created from the author's beliefs and imagination. This style is used in all age level books: child, young adult, and adult.

Drama
Drama is a style that is used mainly in adult and young adult books. It is used in books about people's lives (people who are fictional, not biographies) to describe the soap opera-like lives.

Non fiction
Non fiction is a style of book that is a real event or person. DO NOT GET NON FICTION CONFUSED WITH HISTORICAL FICTION!!! Historical fiction is a story of a real person or event, but has this person or event in situations that have not actually happened. Some types of non fiction include documentary, biography, autobiography, encyclopedias, etc.

Informational Presentations
Informational presentations are presentations that teach you something. These presentations can be live or recorded,etc., but as long as they teach you a lesson, they are informational presentations.

Language Arts/Listening/ Viewing/Speaking

Standard 1: The student uses listening strategies effectively. (LA.B.1.3).

Objective 2: Selects and listens to readings of fiction, drama, nonfiction, and informational presentations according to personal preferences.

Amusement Park Activity

Spot the Style-

1. Go to the library and check out 4
books, one of each style.

2. Select and read a passage
from each book along with the title.

3. Instruct the class to write
down what style of book they think it is.

4. When all of the passages
have been read aloud, read the answers.

Amusement Park Trivia

Did you know... Animal Kingdom
was originally supposed to be a zoo,
but the workers in the CEO offices
of Disney decided to change the
park to an animal reserve.

Vocabulary

Preference - The selecting of someone
or something over another or others.

Select- To take as a choice from
among several; pick out.

Situation- Position or status with
regard to conditions and circumstances.

Event - Something that takes
place; an occurrence.

Links

Netmind - This site has many ways
to expand your personal preferences
by looking at other people's
descriptions of books.

Amazon- This site has the newest
books for your personal selections.
It has books from all of the styles
ready to buy.