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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Read the famous quote by Gandhi, then write a short paragraph about the change you would like to be.

Your second grader will enjoy solving the simple addition problems and coloring in the eggs when she is through.

Search for supporting evidence in this second-grade reading worksheet!

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

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

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

This drawing page helps you celebrate Christmas tradition in a non-traditional way. Have your young artist bring this scene from "A Christmas Carol" to life.

Give your students a chance to practice their reading comprehension skills by focusing on the elements of fiction through story mapping.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.