Nonfiction Book Tasting

While we've hosted book tastings in the library before, we had a first-time request this week: Can you host a nonfiction books *only* book tasting? 

Of course we can!

After pulling several titles, commonalities began to emerge, like memoirs and biographies, sports-themed books, and narrative nonfiction titles. After putting all of the books together, broad categories became clear: memoir/biography, sports, military, narrative nonfiction, World War II/Holocaust, survival, and true crime. Using a template from earlier book tastings, we created table signs to help students move about the library to find a book.

Students in each class that visited would have time to browse the collected books as well as the nonfiction books on shelves. However, one teacher specifically requested book talks to accompany the activity, while another teacher preferred broad information about each category. In the end, nearly 65 nonfiction books were checked out!

If you're looking to host a nonfiction book tasting, you can use similar table signs that are available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.