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Second grade students will step into the author’s shoes as they hunt for evidence to determine what a nonfiction author’s purpose might be.

Why I Write

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

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Make a Prediction Sandwich

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

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

What's Happening?

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

3-2-1 Inference!

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Close Reading: Questions & Answers

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

It All Adds Up to an Inference!

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

Poetry Themes

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

Find the Main Idea: Grow a Salsa Garden! 

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

Develop an Opinion About a Nonfiction Topic

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Adding Up Inferences

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

The Author’s Viewpoint vs. My Viewpoint

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Movies and Main Ideas

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

Discovering Details

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

What's For Breakfast?

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

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

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Learning About the Ocean

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Big Idea Summary

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