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Not all nonfiction texts on the same topic are created equal! Using this lesson plan, your class will become familiar with nonfiction features by comparing and contrasting texts on a shared topic. 


Comparing Nonfiction Text Features

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Compare and Contrast Written vs. Audio/Visual Forms of a Text

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Teach your students how to use timelines to organize information from nonfiction texts.


Timelines and Nonfiction Text

Become a math detective with this inviting first-grade worksheet!

Crack the Code: Number Names to 20

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

Informational Text: Close Reading

Don&rsquo;t be a copycat! Learn how to cite sources and spot plagiarism with this middle-grade worksheet.

Plagiarism Detective: Sneakers #1

Kids play detective and practice phonics in this engaging silent e game.

Spot the Silent E Words: Camping

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Cite the Text: Introductory Phrases

Learners sleuth out the area of three triangles in this simple geometry worksheet.

Geometry Detective: Area of a Triangle #1

Learners sleuth out the area of three triangles in this helpful geometry worksheet.

Geometry Detective: Area of a Triangle #2

This colorful worksheet asks your fourth grade geometry detective to practice identifying right triangles.

Identifying Triangles: Right Triangles

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

Finding the Topic and Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

Adaptations are often used to retell old stories in new mediums. However, not all adaptations are exactly like their originals. This lesson helps students understand how inclusions and omissions can change a story.

Movies vs. Text

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

What Are You Reading?

Let your fourth grader play triangle detective: can she spot the acute triangles on this worksheet?

Identifying Triangles: Acute Triangles

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

Turn your fourth grader into a geometry detective! How many degrees is each missing angle in these quadrilaterals?

The Missing Angle: Quadrilaterals

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.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

Find the mysterious missing numbers in this engaging division worksheet!

Division Detective: Facts Within 100

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

Inferences in Fictional Texts

It’s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

Inference Detectives

In this excerpt from an upcoming math workbook, your junior detective will make a positive ID on obtuse, acute and right angles.

Laser Angles

Invite your learner to be a geometry detective as they find the missing base in a series of acute triangles!&nbsp;

Acute Triangles: Find the Missing Base

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

Ready for another round of where in the world? Be an international math detective as you solve addition problems to discover the secret location!

Where In The World #3

Are you a page turner or a mouse clicker? In this lesson, students compare and contrast text features in two types of nonfictions texts: print and electronic. 

Battle of the Texts: Print vs. Electronics

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.

Note-Taking from a Text

Using her long division savvy, your child will help Detective Zoey Chase track a notorious criminal in this adventure-filled 5th grade math worksheet.

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