Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

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

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

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.

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.

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.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

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

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

In this social studies worksheet, learners will read a short paragraph about elections and then complete a crossword puzzle using vocabulary from the text.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

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.

Provide students with fun phonics practice with this dice-rolling, word-building worksheet!

Learn to differentiate between facts and opinions in this hands-on worksheet!

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.