Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world.

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

As students reread nonfiction, have them draw or write new information they learn. Students then share these new learnings with reading partners.

Nonfiction texts offer a great lens into cause and effect relationships. Use this lesson plan to teach your class to compare cause-and-effect relationships across texts that share a topic.

What the character will do next? Designed to teach students the skill of predicting characters’ actions, this lesson guides students to use clues and evidence from the text to make their predictions. Let’s follow those clues!

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

Get your students excited about adding by introducing them to word problems with three addends!

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

What are the effects of weather events? In this integrated science and language arts lesson, students will explore causes and multiple effect in the context of reading and learning about various weather events and natural disasters.