Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Bring this Jack Be Nimble coloring page to life with crayons! Color nimble Jack, decked out in star-spangled pajamas as he jumps over candlesticks.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Jane Goodall has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild. This worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording in kids who love animals.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Using this worksheet, students will focus on creating a personal timeline about their life.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

Go round and round with this coloring page that goes with the classic song "Wheels on the Bus."

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

What does it mean to have zero? Teach your little fisherman an important math concept with this nursery rhyme math sheet.

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!

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.