1st Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Resources

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1st Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Resources

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Interesting Animals: Bats

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Interesting Animals: Bats

First Grade

Reading

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

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Interesting Animals: Bats

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Interesting Animals: Bats

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

First Grade

Reading

Worksheet

Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

First Grade

Reading

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

First Grade

Reading

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Have Fun Reading: Choice Board

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Have Fun Reading: Choice Board

Pre-K

Reading

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

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Have Fun Reading: Choice Board

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Have Fun Reading: Choice Board

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Fiction or Nonfiction?

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Fiction or Nonfiction?

First Grade

Reading

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

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Fiction or Nonfiction?

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Fiction or Nonfiction?

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

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

This worksheet can help first graders to practice learning how to locate information using a glossary.

This worksheet can help first graders to practice learning how to locate information using a glossary.

First Grade

Reading

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All About Leafcutter Ants

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All About Leafcutter Ants

Kindergarten

Reading

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

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All About Leafcutter Ants

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All About Leafcutter Ants

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

Kindergarten

Reading

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Exploring a Table of Contents

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Exploring a Table of Contents

First Grade

Reading

This worksheet provides a sample table of content and comprehension questions to go along with them to help kids practice.

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Exploring a Table of Contents

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Exploring a Table of Contents

This worksheet provides a sample table of content and comprehension questions to go along with them to help kids practice.

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

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

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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

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

First Grade

Reading

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“I Voted” Coloring Page

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“I Voted” Coloring Page

Pre-K

Reading

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

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“I Voted” Coloring Page

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“I Voted” Coloring Page

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Great White Shark Coloring Page

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Great White Shark Coloring Page

First Grade

Reading

Is your child crazy about sharks? Give him a fun and informational coloring page, all about the great white shark!

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Great White Shark Coloring Page

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Great White Shark Coloring Page

Is your child crazy about sharks? Give him a fun and informational coloring page, all about the great white shark!

First Grade

Reading

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Classifying Visual Text Features

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Classifying Visual Text Features

First Grade

Reading

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

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Classifying Visual Text Features

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Classifying Visual Text Features

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

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

First Grade

Reading

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Brainstorm Before Reading

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Brainstorm Before Reading

First Grade

Reading

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

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Brainstorm Before Reading

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Brainstorm Before Reading

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

First Grade

Reading

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Add a New Text Feature

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Add a New Text Feature

First Grade

Reading

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

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Add a New Text Feature

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Add a New Text Feature

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

First Grade

Reading

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Activate That Background Knowledge

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Activate That Background Knowledge

First Grade

Reading

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

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Activate That Background Knowledge

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Activate That Background Knowledge

First Grade

Reading

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Basking Shark Coloring Page

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Basking Shark Coloring Page

First Grade

Reading

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

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Basking Shark Coloring Page

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Basking Shark Coloring Page

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

First Grade

Reading

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Where Are the Text Features?

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Where Are the Text Features?

First Grade

Reading

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

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Where Are the Text Features?

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Where Are the Text Features?

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

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

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

First Grade

Reading

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

First Grade

Reading

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

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

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

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

First Grade

Reading

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Reading Partners Record!

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Reading Partners Record!

First Grade

Reading

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

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Reading Partners Record!

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Reading Partners Record!

First Grade

Reading

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Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

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Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

First Grade

Reading

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

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Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

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Venn Diagram: Same Topic, Different Information

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

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.

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.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

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About 1st Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Resources

On Education.com, first-grade-exclusive learning materials introduce young students to nonfiction reading by helping them explore real-world books, articles, and passages. This collection encourages early reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and learning about animals, people, and daily life through engaging texts.

Browse a wide range of deals on educator- and parent-approved worksheets, printable passages, reading passages, and classroom activities that support the First Grade Common Core standards. These resources include guided-retell exercises, comprehension questions, and chunked text sections to build strong foundational reading skills.

Using these ready-to-use instructional passages allows teachers to save time planning engaging lessons and provides parents with effective tools to support at-home learning. Each resource offers structured reading practice to promote fluency, critical thinking, and confidence in young readers.

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