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In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library. 

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Nonfiction Genres

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

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

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Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

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Formatting Nonfiction Text

Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.

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Discovering Nonfiction Details

Let's get reading! In this lesson, students will identify the main idea and details of a nonfiction text. Use this on its own or as support for the lesson Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad.

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Nonfiction Main Idea

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in 3-4 sentences.

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What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

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Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

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Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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Summarize a Nonfiction 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. 

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

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Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

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Naming Narratives and Nonfiction

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

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.

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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Argument and Claims

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

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Practice Writing a Conclusion

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

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Formatting Hunt: Features

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

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

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

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Discovering Details

Young writers respond to three relatable prompts in this three-page nonfiction writing exercise.

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Opinion Paragraphs

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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Main Idea: Working Dogs

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

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Writing With a Formal Tone

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

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Learning About the Ocean

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

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Transition Word Hunt

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

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Formatting Frenzy

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

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