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Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

Author's Claim, Reasons, and Evidence

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Formatting Frenzy

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

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

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Reading Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams From Nonfiction Texts

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Characters and Settings in Noun Phrases

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

Prepositions add valuable information to nonfiction texts by helping us understand where and when something happened. In this activity, students will seek to identify prepositions and use them to complete sentences with the help of a word bank.

Part 1: Prepositional Phrases in Nonfiction Text

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

The Crab that Played with the Sea

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Reading Between the Lines

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Compare Similar Stories

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

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Your students will be flexing their comprehension and explanation skills with this worksheet.

Say It With A Summary!

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Compare and Contrast Fairy Tales

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Paraphrasing a Passage

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Reading for Fluency: The Golden Bird

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Reading for Fluency: Through the Looking-Glass

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Character Traits: Making Inferences

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Making Inferences Graphic Organizer

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

What is Drama?

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Theme, Cause, and Effect Reading Log

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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