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Learning to use sensory words effectively is such an important skill for a budding writer. n this activity, students will use sensory adjectives from a word bank to breathe life into ordinary sentences.

Making Sense of Sensory Details

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Make a Mental Picture

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women's sports.

Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Write About Your Pet

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

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Autumn Cinquain

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

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Your students will flesh out their personal narratives using this brainstorming guide.

Second Grade Details Brainstorming

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Students answer key questions about their main character to develop details in this pre-writing worksheet.

Write Your Main Character

Sharpen reading comprehension skills by having kids recall details from The Thanksgiving Turkey in this interactive quiz.

The Thanksgiving Turkey Quiz

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this quiz, written to recall details from the informational text Flightless Birds.

Flightless Birds Reading Comprehension

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Story Order: Case 1

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

Author's Claim, Reasons, and Evidence

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Story Order: Case 2

It's time to dig into some nonfiction books! In this lesson, students will practice identifying the main topic of nonfiction texts. This lesson can be used alone or with the How to Find the Main Idea lesson plan.

Main Topic

Use this organizer to use adjectives to specifically describe nouns. Record the noun first, and then the adjectives that give details about the noun.

Adjective-Adjective-Noun Worksheet

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

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Story Comprehension: What's in a Story?

Developing reading comprehension skills is essential to becoming a super reader. Challenge kids to recall details about Jack and the Beanstalk in this game.

Jack and the Beanstalk Reading Comprehension

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Get Ready to Write

This lesson plan teaches students about Jean-Michel Basquiat and his life as a child. First, students will listen to a story and figure out the main topic and details. Next, students will be asked to think deeply about what it means to be an artist and some of the types of art they like to create. Perfect for first graders and second graders, the lesson Black Artists: Basquiat highlights reading informational texts and building vocabulary.

Black Artists: Basquiat

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

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

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Fruity Compare & Contrast

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

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