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Get your students excited about making text connections!

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Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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Detective Reading

Individualize middle-grade learning experiences with this fun reading response choice board!

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During-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

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Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing!

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Finding Irrelevant Details

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

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State Your Claim

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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Discovering Details

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

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Outline an Informative Paragraph

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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Make a Summary: Butterflies

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

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Can You Spot the Main Idea?

In order to write informational texts, students need to research their topics. Use this handy notetaker to help students record and think through the new information they are gathering.

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Nonfiction Notetaker

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

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Close Reading: Introduction

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

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All About Leafcutter Ants

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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Reading Response Letter Interactive

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

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My Research Notes

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Organization

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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After-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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Making Connections Part 1: Literary Response

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

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Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

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A Misty Copeland Biography

Students will love learning about a new animal as they create an informational report using this helpful guide!

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All About Animals Report

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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All About Wangari Maathai

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

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America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

This research, drawing, and writing worksheet is a fun introduction to informational and science writing. 

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What Lives in the Lake?

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

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Hooks in Informational Writing

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

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Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

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