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

Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

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?

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

Get Focused! Writing Topic Sentences

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

A Tale of Two Texts

What are the two main parts of a sentence? This worksheet focuses on the strategy of identifying complete sentences.

What Are the Two Main Parts of a Sentence?

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Main Idea: Farmers

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

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

Writing Science Fiction

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph&#39;s main idea.

What's the Main Idea?

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

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

This passage talks all about the importance of friends, but what's the main idea? Students will first read the passage, then determine for themselves what they believe to be the main idea of the passage.

Finding the Main Idea: Friends

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

Argument Writing: Topic Cards

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

Identify the Main Idea

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Main Idea: At the Movies

Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.

Vocabulary Practice: Fiction Genre

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner&#39;s worksheet!

Main Idea of a Story

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Glossary: Nonfiction Main Idea

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

The Main Event

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Fiction Travel Brochure

This worksheet challenges kids to find the main idea in the passage all about how plants get their food.

Finding the Main Idea: Plants

Students answer key questions about their main character to develop details in this pre-writing worksheet.

Write Your Main Character

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

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