Making Connections in Nonfiction Printable Worksheets

Introduce your second and third graders to the inspiring mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson. After reading a short biography, children will use what they've learned to answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Build your kindergartener's logical thinking skills by asking him to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

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.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.