As students become more confident in their ability to compare and contrast nonfiction texts, this chart helps to provide structure to their ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.

One of the best ways to prepare for writing is by examining another author’s work. In this activity, students look closely at a nonfiction text and answer questions about what they find in preparation for writing their own.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

The more books you read about a topic, the more you learn! This worksheet helps students compare and contrast information they learn from multiple books about the same topic.

It's fun to share interesting facts with others! Get the fun started with this top five list.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

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

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from 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.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

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

This worksheet helps students, particularly first graders, to develop their understanding of nonfiction texts.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.