Students participate in a classroom scavenger hunt with a partner to measure common classroom objects using a ruler.

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

This lesson will make solving subtraction word problems fun for students. It includes music and interaction to grab your students' attention.

Learning from others is a huge part of getting better at something, including writing! In this lesson, students will study works by nonfiction authors to enhance their own nonfiction writing.