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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.

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Comparing and contrasting two nonfiction texts becomes a lot easier with this organizational chart and the suggestions it provides.

Comparing and contrasting multiple nonfiction texts can be a challenge for young readers, but this guide helps support students with this important skill.

Early readers can use picture clues to help figure out new or unknown words. In this reading fluency worksheet, students learn how examining pictures for context clues can help them decode text.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

This worksheet teaches first graders how to write headings for informational texts.

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

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

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Kids explore the library for new texts with this reading worksheet.

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

This worksheet challenges students to compare and contrast information found in fiction and nonfiction texts.

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

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

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

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

As students become more confident in their ability to compare and contrast nonfiction texts, this chart helps to provide structure to their ideas.

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

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

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.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

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.

With this worksheet, students practice how to read and identify information in a table of contents.

With this instructional worksheet, kids will gain familiarity with how-to writing.