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Use this graphic organizer to help students identify and record the main idea and details of a text.

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

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

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

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

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.