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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

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

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

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

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

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

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

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

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

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

As students read nonfiction books, have them think which important words teach about the main topic. At the end of this activity, students will have made a web of vocabulary words!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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.