Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

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

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.