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Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Children will practice identifying nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

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

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Help your budding reader learn how to spice up a boring biography by asking him to add in the details that make good writing even better.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

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.

Your students will use this resource to analyze their vocabulary words and relate them to other ideas and concepts. It is a great graphic organizer for all content areas.