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2nd - 8th Grade Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 5

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool piano facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Piano Facts

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

What is Soil?

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Amelia Earhart Reading Response

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Close Reading Checklist

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

Finding the Topic and Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

History of Movies

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Titanic

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

Facts vs. Opinions

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Sojourner Truth Timeline

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: History of Cars

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Historical Heroes: Harriet Tubman

The Secret Garden's setting tells you a lot about characters, plot, and conflict. Explore the role of setting in literature in this worksheet.

The Secret Garden Setting

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Working Together: Text and Text Features

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Historical Heroes: Frederick Douglass

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

A Series of Events: The Boston Tea Party

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Fiction Vs. Nonfiction

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Using a Timeline: Barack Obama 

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

Chocolatey Facts and Opinions

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Native American Tribes: Choctaw

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Helen Keller Biography

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentences.

Fact or Opinion Sentences

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author&#39;s point.

Soccer: Nonfiction Text

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Amerigo Vespucci

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Star Graphic Organizer

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Manatee Facts

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

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