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Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Discovering Details

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

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

Organize Your Questions

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

Inferences & Evidence

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing!

Finding Irrelevant Details

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

Underline Key Details

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.   

Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Glossary: Discovering Nonfiction Details

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Glossary: Adjectives in Informational Texts

In this lesson, your students will use guiding questions as a way to organize their thoughts about non-fiction reading. They will also gain an understanding of some of the factors that led to the colonization of the Middle Atlantic States.

Middle Atlantic State Migration

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Adding Relevant Supporting Details

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Learn which kinds of details to include in a paragraph and which to remove in this worksheet on writing strategies!

Relevant & Irrelevant Details

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

This lesson gives students practice identifying first person and third person narration in fiction and nonfiction texts. It could be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Fiction vs. Nonfiction.

Shifting Points of View

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Adjectives in Informational Texts

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Nonfiction Details

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

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

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

How familiar are your fourth graders with the fictional genres available in their class or school libraries? This lesson introduces them to many genres of fictional books so they can get off to a terrific start of fourth grade reading. 

Fiction Genres Library Exploration

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Glossary: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

Did you know that comparative tasks improve comprehension and help students develop higher order thinking skills? In this lesson, students will compare nonfiction texts on the same topic using Venn diagrams and performance!

Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Searching for Context Clues & Key Details

Are you a page turner or a mouse clicker? In this lesson, students compare and contrast text features in two types of nonfictions texts: print and electronic. 

Battle of the Texts: Print vs. Electronics

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

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

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