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Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

After reading Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Fact vs. Fiction

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

The Crystal Heart

In nonfiction, bolding and underlining are frequently used to help words stand out. In fiction, authors can use ALL CAPS to add emphasis to a character’s voice.

All Caps for Emphasis

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Analyze the Characters

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

Compare & Contrast Supporting Characters

Use this resource to help your English learners identify adjectives.

Identifying Common Adjectives

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Making Predictions: Before, During, After!

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Letter Checklist

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Cite the Text: Introductory Phrases

English Learners often struggle with the notion of complete versus fragment sentences. Use this grammar resource to help your students identify the subject and predicate that make up a complete sentence.

Identifying Subjects and Predicates

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Identifying Fact and Opinion

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Making Predictions Task Cards

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Writing About Reading Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

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

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Finding the Theme

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Think About Theme: The Golden Nugget

Practice identifying relative pronouns in the context of written sentences with this grammar worksheet!

Identify Relative Pronouns

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Is It Alliteration? #2

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

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

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

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