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Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Organization in Writing

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

Tell about your summer escapades in this bright worksheet!

Friendly Letter: Summer Adventure

Recount an exciting springtime experience with this letter-writing worksheet, created for first and second graders!

Friendly Letter: Spring Adventure

Write concise, engaging sentences and eliminate repetitive words with this helpful handout!

Better Together: Introduction to Combining Sentences

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Practice your letter-writing skills with this creative worksheet!

Friendly Letter: Fall Adventure

Young writers will learn to manipulate and combine sentences with conjunctions and adverb phrases. This skill helps students understand that crafting sentences is a creative and artistic process. 

Sentence Scramble

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

Could there be a pot of gold waiting for you at the end of that rainbow? Or is it hiding elsewhere? In this St. Patrick's Day lesson plan, students will write about what they would do if they found a pot of gold.

St. Patrick's Day Writing: If I Found a Pot of Gold...

Help your class grasp the concept of &quot;main idea&quot; with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.

Main Idea: It's in the Bag!

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


Christmas Adventure Writing

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Reading Pictures

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Fully adaptable, this lesson can be used to to highlight African American leaders, famous women, veterans, or any other group of individuals who have acted heroically and have positively influenced our nation!

Activist Heroes

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Write a Cliffhanger

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Vacation Memory Book

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Make Your Own Fairy Tale

This lesson teaches kids all about Malcolm X and how his childhood influenced him to become one of America's most well known, controversial, and revolutionary figures. First kids will listen to a read-aloud authored by Malcolm X's daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, and then they will write an informative paragraph.

Black Revolutionaries: Malcolm X

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Design a Diorama!

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

Writing Opinions About Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

When your students make connections to their personal lives, their writing will flourish! Use this lesson plan as a springboard to helping students plan and develop their own personal narratives.

Experience Explanations

Everyone loves an intriguing introduction! Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing new and improved introductions to well-loved fictional stories in this fun writing lesson.

Capture That Reader!

Second graders love field trips and sharing their opinions! This fun lesson combines both, as students must convince their teacher to take them on a field trip by practicing their opinion writing and using paragraph structure.

Here’s What I Think!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Make a Travel Journal

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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