When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

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.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.