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Capture the tip of the iceberg! Use this lesson plan to teach your students to summarize nonfiction texts by noting the “tip of the iceberg,” also known as the main idea. Students will identify and sequence them.

Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

Causes and Effects of Natural Disasters

Understanding the difference between fact and opinion is a critical skill. Your students will practice differentiating between facts and opinions in nonfiction texts and will apply the skills they learn to write their own statements.

Fact vs. Opinion in Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements.  Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Poetry

Have your little chemist think about the properties, or characteristics, of metals. What makes them different than non-metals?

Properties of Metals

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Glossary: Identifying Character and Setting

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Movies and Main Ideas

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Understanding Plot by Creating Your Own Story

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Vocabulary Cards: Identifying Character and Setting

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

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Write a Persuasive Paragraph: Social Media 

Learn to whip up a delicious treat as you practice important reading skills in this colorful worksheet!

Find the Main Idea: A Recipe for Successful Baking

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

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

Two Truths and  One Lie: Research Edition

Do your students have trouble understanding the main types of figurative language? This lesson will teach them about I SHAMPOO C, an acronym used to to remember nine of the main types with ease.

I SHAMPOO C: Figurative Language

Practice creating titles, headings, and subheadings using fun topics &mdash;&nbsp;then come up with a topic of your own.

Titles, Headings, and Subheadings: Exercise

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Frame Your Essay

In this worksheet, close readers use the subject to help identify the main idea of a text.

What Is the Subject?

Researching, both online and offline, is a skill your student will find useful in any class. This writing worksheet gives her an interesting topic to research.

Research It! The Hobbit 

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

What's Behind the Door?

Help students remember the four main types of sentences with this convenient reference sheet!

Handout: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sentences 

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

All About Mark Twain

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