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Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts: Pets

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Write concise, engaging sentences and eliminate repetitive words with this helpful handout!

Better Together: Introduction to Combining Sentences

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

Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.

Discovering Nonfiction Details

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. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

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

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Create conversations about character changes! Use this lesson plan as a stand-alone lesson for practicing sequencing words in evidenced-based claims about a character, or before the Characters Change Just Like We Do lesson.

Evidence of Character Changes

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

Halloween Writing Prompts #3

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Make a Match: Show Don’t Tell

Use this lesson to help your ELs strengthen their vocabulary and learn how to create a personal timeline. Teach this lesson as a standalone lesson or use it as support for the lesson Timelines and Nonfiction Text. 

Personal Timeline

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Rainbow Editing

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

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

This lesson combines an introduction to biomes with some fun Venn diagram exercises. Not only will students learn more about nature, they'll also learn how to make comparisons between different things in nature.

Biomes: Comparing and Contrasting

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Use this mid-year assessment to get a glimpse into your young writers and their skills when it comes to writing narratives.

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