Teaching fiction and nonfiction is better when done together, believes educator Jessica Rosevear, and this article details her reasons why. Rosevear also provides a number of texts for pairing, as well as classroom activities to implement.
This resource, found on the National Council of Teachers of English website, is rich with links to help you teach content-rich nonfiction. The site offers links to lesson plans, online webinars, research findings, and more.
This list focuses on narrative nonfiction and memoirs to integrate into your English curriculum. The books listed range from Malcolm X's autobiography to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, and all the books are spot-on with offering innovative nonfiction texts to engage young readers.
Sarah Brown Wessling, an ELA teacher in Johnstown, Iowa recognizes the sometimes dry and boring nature of nonfiction texts. Her solution? Use comic strips. Students work in "pods" and fill in the comic strip templates using words or pictures after discussing what they read.