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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

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

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

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

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

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

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Sentence Frames for Persuasive Writing

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing!

What Are the Facts?

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

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.

Narrative Writing Check-In

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills as they respond to a narrative prompt.

Narrative Writing Learning Check

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills when it comes to responding to opinion writing prompts.

Opinion Writing Check-Up

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Informational Writing Learning Check

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Informational Writing Check-Up

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

Make a Match: Show Don’t Tell

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

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Informational Writing Check-In

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

How to Outline a Short Story

Out of this world! This prospector has begun mining for resources on Mars! Your 4th grade sci-fi lover can write a story about his daily life.

The Prospector on Mars

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

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

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

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Story Map a Personal Narrative

Holy cow! Did President George W. Bush really have a longhorn named Ofelia as a pet? Students learn about wacky White House pets in this fun research activity that includes “president interviews” and a pet choice writing page.

Presidential Pets

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

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