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Preschool - 6th Grade Common Core Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 3

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Day of the Dead

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

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

Identifying Fact and Opinion

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

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Find the Main Idea: Elephant

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

Fourth Grade Reading Log

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Ocean

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

History of Jazz

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Quotes as Evidence #1

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

Look Around! Using Context Clues

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 

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

Fact or Opinion? You Decide!

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

Amendments Quiz

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.

The Mayflower

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Amelia Earhart Biography

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

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

First vs. Third Person Narration

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

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

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

Biomes of the World

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

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

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

Hurricane Science

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Earthquake Science

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