Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Comparing and contrasting multiple nonfiction texts can be a challenge for young readers, but this guide helps support students with this important skill.

Comparing and contrasting two nonfiction texts becomes a lot easier with this organizational chart and the suggestions it provides.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

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 first graders how to write headings for informational texts.

Kids explore the library for new texts with this reading worksheet.

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

This worksheet challenges students to compare and contrast information found in fiction and nonfiction texts.

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

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

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

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

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.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

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.

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.