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Showing Results for citing evidence in non fiction texts

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

Glossary: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

Introduce the concept of author’s purpose in fiction texts with this fun reading lesson! Students will discuss three examples of fictional texts to determine the purpose of each.

Author’s Purpose in Fiction Texts

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Inferences & Evidence

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

Vocabulary Cards: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Making Predictions with Text Evidence

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

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

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

This lesson gives students a structure to help them summarize fiction texts. When they are skilled at summarizing, they will be more capable of exploring various fiction genres. Use it as a precursor to Fiction Genres Library Exploration. 

Basic Fiction Summaries

Why does someone write a story? Give your students the tools to find out the author's purpose! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as an introduction to the Author’s Purpose in Fiction Texts lesson plan.

The Purpose of Fiction Texts

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Themes

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

Author's Claim, Reasons, and Evidence

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Where's the Evidence?

In this worksheet evidence-based writing skills start with reading comprehension.

Evidence-Based Writing

Use this lesson to teach your students to cite evidence from the text with introductory phrases. This lesson can stand-alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the <a href="https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/reading-comprehension-and-evidence-based-terms/" target="_blank">Reading Comprehension and Evidence-Based Terms</a> lesson.

Prove it With Evidence

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Collecting Strong Evidence

Kids practice using the prefixes dis-, un-, and non- in this worksheet.

Prefix Practice: Dis- Non- Un- 

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Evidence of Character Changes.

Glossary: Evidence of Character Changes

What's the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy? Help your student discover the various forms of energy we use each day.

Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

What is Historical Fiction?

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers. Help your students make sense of these literary elements using dynamic organizers that draw comparisons between fiction texts.


Head to Head Fiction Reflections

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Evidence as a Statement.

Vocabulary Cards: Evidence as a Statement

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Argument Writing: Match the Evidence

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

Fiction or Nonfiction?

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Writing Science Fiction

The proof is in the pudding! Use this lesson to teach your students how to use text evidence as proof when answering questions after reading. They will use evidence-based terms as they answer basic comprehension questions.

Reading Comprehension and Evidence-Based Terms

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

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