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Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

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

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections

Mix history and fiction and write your own story about what would happen if Captain Hook of "Peter Pan" and Captain Blackbeard met!

Pirate Story Starter

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

State Your Claim

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

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

Emoji Emotions

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Crafting an Awesome Title

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.

Sun Notetaking

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Paraphrasing Practice

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

This lesson gives students the chance to demonstrate and reinforce their knowledge of sequencing. Have them role play a fantasy text to practice sequencing!

Sequencing: Order in the Court!

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Cuz-Cuz and Roly

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they&#39;re at it.

Writing an Opinion

In this grammar and mechanics worksheet, children will review guidelines for using quotation marks, along with examples.

Quotation Mark Rules

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

The Pentagon Tour Tips and Tricks

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

Here are four examples of mineral resources for kids to think about, plus a short explanation of what a mineral resource is.

Example of Mineral Resources

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

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

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Wacky Limericks

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

Raccoon Revision

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

In this lesson, students use highlighters, graphic organizers, and a classic fable to exercise their understanding of key details and main idea in a text. They will use manipulatives to promote visual and kinetic learning styles.

Fantastic Fables: 5 W's

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.

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