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Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

making sense of text message language

Making Sense of Text Message Language

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

hunting for nonfiction text features in pictures

Hunting for Nonfiction Text Features in Pictures

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

vocabulary cards making connections in a fiction text

Vocabulary Cards: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

should i recycle this nonfiction text

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

nonfiction text features martin luther king jr

Nonfiction Text Features: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

textbased fact or opinion

Text-Based Fact or Opinion

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

glossary using sentence level context to decode text

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

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

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Guide your students towards understanding what it takes to be a reading detective! By identifying synonyms and looking up definitions, they’ll familiarize themselves with some key vocabulary.

vocabulary for reading detectives

Vocabulary for Reading Detectives

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

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

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

Part 2: Prepositional Phrases in Nonfiction Text

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

Color Coding Nonfiction Text:  Fidget Spinners

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

character detectives

Character Detectives

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

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

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!

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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

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

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

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

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

word detective game

Word Detective Game

Children will crack the case using adjectives, descriptions, and process of elimination.

ice cream detective

Ice Cream Detective

Use comparative and superlative clues to find out who stole the birthday cake.

birthday cake detective

Birthday Cake Detective

Fluent readers know how to tackle tricky words. Help young readers build their reading muscles by practicing identifying and decoding challenging words with this worksheet.

tricky word detective

Tricky Word Detective

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 authors purpose in a fictional text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

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 audiovisual forms of a text

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

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

turn your child into a letter detective

Turn Your Child into a Letter Detective!

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

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

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

Informational Text: Close Reading

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

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