Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called "The Wall," with this interesting printable.

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun sea turtle-themed worksheet.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

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

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun horse-themed worksheet.

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

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.