Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

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

Once students have completed their first draft of informational writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Students will write an expositional essay about second grade with this end-of-year informational writing assessment. Use the included rubric as a jumping off point to assess student writing for proper grammar, structure, and content.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

This worksheet helps students record important details in a text, an essential reading comprehension skill in second grade.