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Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

George Washington, a Man of Firsts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Do Screen and Text Color Affect Retention?

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

Utilizing Text and Font Features in Your Writing

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about the key elements of fictional text, including characters, setting, and plot. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

The Key Elements of Fictional Text

This activity will have your students reading short paragraphs to identify prepositional phrases, and then using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

Part 2: Prepositional Phrases in Nonfiction Text

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

Personal Stories in Informational Writing

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text:  Fidget Spinners

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Informational Writing Check-Up

These cut-and-paste cards provide students with steps for writing the introduction, body, and conclusion parts of an informational text.

Conclusion Cards

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Learning About Maps!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Critical thinking demands making inferences and having proof. Use this lesson plan with your students to teach how to infer author&rsquo;s perspective and cite supporting quotes from text.

Perspective in Text: Whose Voice is Missing?

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

I Can Make Predictions and Summarize Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this quiz, written to recall details from the informational text Flightless Birds.

Flightless Birds Reading Comprehension

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Informational Writing Check-In

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

Make a Travel Brochure for Mexico City

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

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Informational Writing: Battles of the American Revolution

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

Finished with the first draft of informational writing? Let this handy checklist guide students through a peer review conference! Students will check for correct punctuation, capitalization, complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Informational Writing: Peer Revision

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


Timelines and Nonfiction Text

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Make a Travel Brochure for Vancouver

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

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