Evidence-based Questioning in Non-Fiction

Can You Prove It? Facts and Opinions!

Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1

With these short fiction passages, your students will identify the problems and solutions.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Can You Prove It? Facts and Opinions!

This lesson introduces students to the differences between facts and opinions in an interactive way. Education.com worksheets are used to reinforce the concepts taught in this lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Aquatic Biomes

Aquatic Biomes

Dive into earth and life science with this book on aquatic biomes. Research reefs, learn wetland animals, and explore the squishy world of swamps in this book about these wet and wild ecosystems.

4th grade

Science

Workbook

Creepy Creatures

Creepy Creatures

Dig into some of the most famous myths and legends across the country. This nonfiction comprehension workbook is complete with writing activities, fill-in-the-blanks, and drawing pages.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Workbook

Determining Importance

Determining Importance

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Detective Reading

Immigration: Ellis Island

Detective Reading

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Immigration: Ellis Island

This is a lesson about the immigration procedures at Ellis Island. Students will learn about the process and creatively write about what it was like for immigrants to pass through Ellis Island.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

It's Elemental

It's Elemental

Kids can practice reading informational texts and explore the periodic table with this introduction to science topics that will extend to high school chemistry and beyond.

5th grade

Science

Workbook

Picture Walk: A Preview

Journey on the Underground Railroad

Picture Walk: A Preview

Use pantomime performance to drive your students to predict, question, and cite main ideas. With this dramatic lesson plan, your class will craftily capture information on a graphic organizer to boost their reading comprehension!

5th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

Journey on the Underground Railroad

This lesson combines historical facts and creative writing to engage students in exercises that enhance both vocabulary and social studies knowledge.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making a New Home: Colonial America

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making a New Home: Colonial America

Settlers began arriving to build homes for themselves in America in the early bits of the 17th century. In this lesson, your students will learn a little about what it took to leave home and become a settler.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Terracotta Army

Terracotta Army

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Glyphs and Codes

Compare and Contrast W.E.B. Du Bois and George Washington Carver

Glyphs and Codes

Explore the role that symbols and codes have in helping us interact with one another. If it's about the art of communication you'll find it in here!

4th grade

Social studies

Workbook

Basking Shark Coloring Page

Compare and Contrast W.E.B. Du Bois and George Washington Carver

In this lesson, ask students to compare and contrast two important African-American historical figures. Students will write an informational paragraph on the similarities and differences between W.E.B. Du Bois and George Washington Carver.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Basking Shark Coloring Page

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

History of Cars

History of Cars

Give him this reading worksheet on the history of cars, which traces their steam-powered origins to their green future.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Gutenberg Printing Press

Gutenberg Printing Press

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Boom: An Activity Book

Boom: An Activity Book

Create kid-safe experiments out of everyday household materials with 11 exciting science projects that fizz with anticipation and explode with delight.

Reading & writing

Workbook

Picture Walk Reflections

Picture Walk Preview Notes

Picture Walk Reflections

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Feel the Fall: Party Activities

Picture Walk Preview Notes

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet