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This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

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

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.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

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