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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 12

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

Exploring Point of View: What Do You Think?

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Learn about these lush, diverse biomes and practice spotting their inhabitants.

Rainforest Animals and Plants Galore

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Comparing the Effects of Different Events

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

The Fungus Among Us

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Hiking Through the Tundra

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Temple of Artemis

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Underline Key Details

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Deborah Sampson

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet. 

Learning About Nancy Pelosi 

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Cause and Effect Comic Strips

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Tuskegee Institute

Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for 63 important years. Students can read about Victoria's life in this history worksheet.

Women in History: Queen Victoria

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Caption Illustration Rubric Chart

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Endangered Species: Przewalski's Horse

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Organize Your Inference

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Paraphrasing: Rosa Parks

Help your child read this page about the Sumatran rhinoceros, where they can color an illustration as they learn about why this animal is endangered.

Endangered Species: Sumatran Rhinoceros

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Glossary: Personal Timeline

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Who Was Junko Tabei?

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Jazz Greats: Charles Mingus

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

Women in History: Dolley Madison

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