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Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Write About Your Pet

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

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

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

Audience Analysis

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

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Could It Happen?

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Writing Narratives with Spooky Adjectives

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

What is the Main Idea

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Using Inside and Outside Details to Pace Your Piece

Supporting details make a main idea stronger, and add color and interest to any story. Your early writer will describe your home and add detail to their writing.

Describe Your Home

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

Main Topic Worksheet

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

Let's get reading! In this lesson, students will identify the main idea and details of a nonfiction text. Use this on its own or as support for the lesson Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Nonfiction Main Idea

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Get Ready to Write

Get your students excited about geography with a lesson on Earth's oceans. After reading two different texts, they'll be ready to dive right into ocean paragraph writing. 

Diving into Earth's Oceans

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

Opinion Writing Learning Check

In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library. 

Nonfiction Genres

Look at history! In this lesson, guide students through an exploration of the context, causes, and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad, and help them practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Informative Essay: Anchor Paper

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. 

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