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Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

Nonfiction texts offer a great lens into cause and effect relationships. Use this lesson plan to teach your class to compare cause-and-effect relationships across texts that share a topic.

Analyzing Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Articles

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Making Predictions and Summarizing: Tell Me What You Think

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Set the Scene

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

Causes and Effects of Natural Disasters

Not all nonfiction texts on the same topic are created equal! Using this lesson plan, your class will become familiar with nonfiction features by comparing and contrasting texts on a shared topic. 


Comparing Nonfiction Text Features

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

This lesson helps students recognize cause-and-effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction writing by identifying clue words. It can be used on its own or as a precursor to Cause and Effect with Comic Strips.

Words That Show Cause and Effect

This resource helps students comprehend and analyze complex texts, using the 3-reads close reading strategy.

Close Reading Activity

Use this lesson to gauge your students’ basic comprehension of fiction text. If they can answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, you know they have a handle on it and it’s time to get into more critical thinking!

Questions that Gauge Comprehension

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1

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

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Cite the Text: Introductory Phrases

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Comparing and Contrasting: Feeding our Pets

In this lesson, your students will use guiding questions as a way to organize their thoughts about non-fiction reading. They will also gain an understanding of some of the factors that led to the colonization of the Middle Atlantic States.

Middle Atlantic State Migration

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

Finding the Main Idea: Apples

Get a workout with repeat reading activities! Use this lesson plan with your students to practice reading fluency and build comprehension and summary details using fiction classics. 

Fluency and Comprehension Boot Camp!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

Classifying Nonfiction Details

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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