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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Resources : Page 10

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

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Comprehension Cards

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 

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

Clues in the Census

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.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Author's Purpose Scavenger Hunt

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Glossary: Words That Show Cause and Effect

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Two Truths and  One Lie: Research Edition

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Soil and Decomposers: A Perfect Pair

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

Jazz Greats: Charles Mingus

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

I Spy: Tundra Animals Edition

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Make a Travel Brochure for Mexico City

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Malala: Interview

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

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

The Fungus Among Us

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

Glossary: Understand Text Features

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Make a Travel Brochure for Amsterdam

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Endangered Species: Pygmy Hippo

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

Putting it All Together

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

Endangered Species: Okapi

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

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Challenge your student&#39;s knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

U.S. Presidents: Matching Game II

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Glossary: Quotes with Introductory Phrases

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

Women in History: Dolley Madison

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Vocabulary Cards: Nonfiction Main Idea

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

Presidential Press Conference

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

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Picture Walk Reflections

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