We need 3 characteristics of nonfiction stories for 1st grade homework?
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1. The story is true.\n2. It describes not entertains.\n3. If it is a library book, it has a number rather than all  letters.
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Hope this helps - I've dozens more, if you need. \n(I am an elementary teacher and have taught third grade.)\n\nGiving Thanks:  A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp\nIt's a beautiful story with cool illustrations written by a Mohawk Chief - good for Thanksgiving, Earth Day, or environmental units\nhttp://www.leeandlow.com/teachers/guide12.html\n\n\nMy Teacher for President by Kay Winters\nfun, short, and good for a quick read or discussion about the president or America themes\nhttp://www.kaywinters.com/my_teacher.htm\n\nOfficer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman\nadorable story on safety and working as a team\nhttp://www.peggyrathmann.com/officerbuckle.html\n\n\nSorry to say, many of the other suggestions seem a little juvenile for third grade.
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Good person to write about!!  I agree with everyone else's answers; Mark Twain captured life in the 1800s, the human spirit, and he did it with a brilliant sense of humor.  He used a lot of sarcasm, which most people your age can relate to!  Although his books are fictional, they are a great resource for learning about American history- people's accents, slang, and what they did for fun.\n\nGood luck w/ your paper, I'm sure it'll be great!
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Her opening sentence/paragraph should be about what her paper is about. Email me and I can help--I'm an English teacher.
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Do your own homework...\n\nbut direct characterization is where the author comes out right and says characteristics.  So look for descriptions and introductions of characters in the book.
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Is that a story??  Sounds like an essay...make it more casual, like truely teenager?  What's so fab about gym?  Sample:  \n\nInstead of:   Basketball, Volleyball, being in the Weight room, what’s not to like about PE? Throughout the year, we all do a lot of sports while we’re in PE, and do ALOT of reading and writing and reading in health! \n\nBasketball, vollyball, girls in shorts (or cute boys, w.e ur character's gender)...what's not to like about P.E?  All through the year, it never looses momentum.  From all those sports we get to play to A TON of reading, writing (notepassing) in health class, gym definitly rocks.  Except today...\n\n1)Forshadowing in 1st paragraph \n2) Gives your character personality.  If a kid in my school spoke like that, I'd be, well, terrified!
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try this site: http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/English/Writing/
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the sites below are very good. sparknotes should be your first stop with pinkmonkey being a backup. has helped me pass many an english class.
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You might ask your teacher if you need to narrow your subject matter or not, quite a bit I would think. There is religion, politics, manufacturing, financial, culturaland so on. Even just the cultural aspects could go on forever, there are so many things that go on at one time. For the cultural fact verses fiction I suggest the following book. The way we never were, By Stephanie Coontz copywritten 1992 Published by Harper Collins Publishers Inc.
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Obviously, no one on Yahoo Answers went along on your school field trip, so, no one here can give you any specifics for your article.\n\nSo far as format is concerned, think of a snappy-sounding "headline" for your story. Buy a newspaper or two today and look at the way the articles in a real newspaper are set up. It's pretty much like a regular essay - there's a beginning, a middle, and an end (but not a "conclusion"-sounding one).\n\nNewspaper articles always stress the five things all people want to know - the who, the what, the where, the how, and the why. If you can cover all five of those points, you'll be able to compose a good article.\n\nMake sure it is neatly typed, is spell-checked, and contains proper sentence structure. If there are quotes from anybody, make sure to include proper punctuation. And last, but not least, learn your lesson about putting off assignments till the last minute. This will backfire almost every time. Good luck!
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what does ur teacher want u 2 write about?\nif u want a good horror story...:\nIt was a dark and stormy night. A horrific scream rang out out from the operating room, followed by a roll of deep, heavy, mysterious laughter...\nif u want love story...:\nSarah took of her robe and gently claimed into bed, where her loving husband took ahold of her and embraced her tenderly...\nif u want a mystery story...:\nA shot rang out, then another. Detective Landeis raced to the scene, and saw blood oozing out onto the sidewalk from a pregnant woman's head. A blue chevy's tires squeaked as the murderous man got away...\nif u want another genre, just email me @ iluv_19990@yahoo.com
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A teacher advised us to give our daughter a Post-It pad and to have her write a one-line summary of what she just read on each page (less often as her reading got stronger).  If she could not summarize the information in one line, that would be a clue that she hadn't read that portion very well and needed to read it again and more thoroughly.\n\nYou son's teacher(s) might have similar recommendations for him.  Best of luck to you and to him!
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Is this your own assignment?  What I would do first is see if there is any certain topic you have to find for class.  Let's use English as our subject.  So, find a book that you like and find a long paragraph!  The main idea is the main point that the author is trying to get across.  This is usually in the first or the last sentence.  Then the supporting details are the ones that give more meaning to the main idea.  \n\nAn exmaple:  A main idea would be, "Tom Thumb is a small man."  and your supporting details would be, "He is so small that he is only the size of someone's thumb.  He got lost in my pocket once!  A cat mistook him for a mouse!"\n\nAfter you read the supporting details, you understand exactly how small Tom is.  The next paragraph might have the main idea about how Tom is funny.  The next might be about how Tom eats a lot of food.\n\nThe other post is a good way of showing how when you write an essay or a book that all the main ideas get put together to form one big idea.  All of my examples put together could be an essay with the main idea, or subject, about, "The Man Called Tom Thumb."\n\nHope this illustrates your questtion!  Good luck with main ideas... you are on your way to being a great writer!
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I would recommend two options:\n\n1) Get hold of a copy of 'First Things First' by Stephen Covey. It is around the notion of important and urgent and how one can identify these on a daily and weekly basis\n\n2) A simple story which might help you in saving some time instead of reading the book :)\n\nA teacher comes into class one day with a glass container full of big rocks and asks the class if the container was full or not?\n\nThe students say Yes after which the teacher gets some gravel and pours it into the container through the rocks.\nTeacher: "Is the container full now?"\nStudents: "Yes"\n\nthe teacher now gets some sand and pours it into the container which slips in through the rocks and gravel.\nTeacher: "Is the container full now?"\nStudents: "Absolutely Yes "\n\nTeacher gets water and pours it into the container which slips in through the rocks, gravel and sand to eventually fill up the container.\n\nMoral of the story: Identify the rocks in your life (or day) and get them in first - everything else can adapt. Imagine trying to get anything in to the container if  one started with water!
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Brainstorm details about it, sensory details that tell your reader about how it feels, listens, smels, hear, etc; factual details which is the actual data like time of year, dates, numbers, places, etc; and figurative details like similes and metaphors you can use.  You also need to decide beforehand if your essay will be objective or subjective, if it is subjective you will include your personal impression and that will also count.  Write about what you know.
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Yea sounds good for your age. Try this for your essay you'll impress the teacher.\n\nparagraph 1, intro, explaining the topic of the paper in 6-8 sentences.\n\nparagraph 2, body point 1, topic 1, explain how you respect her and why in 6-8 sentences.\n\nparagraph 3, body point 2, topic 2, explain what her life was like in 6-8 sentences.\n\nparagraph 4, body point 3, topic 3, explain what she did to become famous in 6-8 sentences.\n\nparagraph 5, conclusion, wrap everything up, restate the intro and 3 body points but in a concluding way.\n\nDo something like this and you'll do good and impress people. Good luck.
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You can try something like this: http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/\nOr for a book report: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/media/hh/pdfs/ideaorganizers/book_report_ideaorg.pdf