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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 3

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Water Protectors

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

The Aspirations of Sonia Sotomayor 

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

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

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

Close Reading Annotations

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Earthquake Science

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

History of Jazz

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Amendments Quiz

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

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

Biomes of the World

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

First vs. Third Person Narration

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: History of Cars

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Azulejos: A Tradition of Portugal

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

The Underground Railroad helped thousands of enslaved Americans find freedom. In this worksheet, your student will learn about this historic network.

The Underground Railroad

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Fred Korematsu

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage!&nbsp;

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Dorothea Dix

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.

Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

History of Television

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

Tornado Science

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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