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Elementary School Nonfiction Passages Worksheets : Page 11

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Jazz Greats: John Coltrane

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of the Sun

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Tennis: Nonfiction Text

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Chaparral Memory

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

Did you know there is a shark that's nocturnal? Learn all about the nurse shark with a fun and informative coloring page!

Nurse Shark Coloring Page

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Illustration Explanation

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

How the Whale Got His Throat: Reading Comprehension

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

The Topic of Details

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Ada Lovelace Biography

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Cite an Author with Introductory Phrases

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Civil Rights Court Cases

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Firsthand or Secondhand Account?

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Weekly Reading Response

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Julia Child Biography

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Hot or Cold? How Temperatures Affect Plants

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

All About Leafcutter Ants

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Read, Tell, Write

Young readers will love digging into this passage&#39;s cool octopus facts, and they&#39;ll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Octopus Facts

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Temple of Artemis

Learn all about baseball history in this quick reading comprehension sheet that will get your kid up to speed on reading over spring break.

Baseball History

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Comparing and Contrasting with Sentence Frames

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Welcome to the Savannah

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

What is Fantasy?

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Going Across the Deciduous Forest

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Fruity Compare & Contrast

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Biography: Booker T. Washington

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

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