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In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Author Inferences and Quotes as Proof

Learners work on their evidence-based reasoning skills in this engaging nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

A central component of reading comprehension is the ability to understand the main idea or theme of a text. In this series, your child will practice basic analysis of a short story or poem.

Story Sleuth: Reading Comprehension

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Reading Comprehension: All Gold Canyon

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text:  Fidget Spinners

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

Developing reading comprehension skills is essential to becoming a super reader. Challenge kids to recall details about Jack and the Beanstalk in this game.

Jack and the Beanstalk Reading Comprehension

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Main Idea: Working Dogs

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

Asking Questions: KWL Chart

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Reading Comprehension: Cause and Effect

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Reading Comprehension: The Soccer Sprain

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Who Was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Post Your Questions

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

Learn all about the interesting world of the whale while practicing fluency and reading comprehension skills using this helpful nonfiction reading worksheet.

Interesting Animals: Whales

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

Quotes as Evidence #3

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Spiders and Their Webs

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Comprehension Cards

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

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