Get ready to teach students strategies for understanding new words! Students will practice strategies to read new words in nonfiction books. This lesson can be used alone or with the New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction lesson plan.

Understanding how titles, headings, and subheadings work together in nonfiction can help students with writing and with reading comprehension. Students will make observations about nonfiction texts and consider organization choices.

Captions and illustrations come together and leap forth from your class as they relate to nonfiction texts.

In this lesson, your class will identify an author’s claim in nonfiction text by identifying evidence and reasons.