Evidence-based Questioning in Non-Fiction

Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

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

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

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

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

Picture Walk: A Preview

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

It's Elemental

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

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

Feel the Fall: Party Activities

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

Journey on the Underground Railroad

Feel the Fall: Party Activities

This activity book is full of autumn food recipes, fine motor skills practice and fun family party ideas for the fall.

Social studies

Workbook

Making a New Home: Colonial America

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

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

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

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

Students will learn more about the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, then write a paragraph explaining their thoughts on the validity of this creature.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

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

Glyphs and Codes

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

Terracotta Army

Terracotta Army

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

4th grade

Social studies

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

Picture Walk Preview Notes

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

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

Picture Walk Reflections

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

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

Neroli Fairhall

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

Neroli Fairhall

Learn about the history of archery with a famous Olympian: Neroli Fairhall!

4th grade

Social studies

Worksheet