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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.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

How do you spend your summer days? Help your child keep his writing skills honed this summer vacation with a creative writing prompt.

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

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.

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Second graders love telling stories! Help them plan their own small moment stories using this handy graphic organizer.

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

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

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

In this grammar worksheet, children punctuate a fairy tale with the missing periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

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.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.