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Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

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Poetry Themes

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

When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.

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Read Between the Lines

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

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Stand Up Like Malala

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

One of the best ways to prepare for writing is by examining another author’s work. In this activity, students look closely at a nonfiction text and answer questions about what they find in preparation for writing their own.

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Get Ready to Write Nonfiction

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

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Important Supporting Details: Cherokee

ELs will get a chance to practice their listening and reading comprehension skills as they answer questions about the key details in a read-aloud text. Use as a stand-alone or pre-lesson for the Questions for Comprehension lesson plan.

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Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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Biography of Wangari Maathai

Thinking about who, what, when, where, and why isn’t just for detectives! Students will practice gleaning important information from texts using these questions and a few other tools.

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The Five W's of Notetaking

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

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Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts: Pets

Your students will be digging into nonfiction texts in search of the purpose and main idea of a passage.

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Digging In with Research

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

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Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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Writing About Reading Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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Find the Central Message: Literary Response

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

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

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The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

Making inferences from texts about the Plains States, your students will learn how to read with a purpose! In this lesson, your students will practice important skills while developing knowledge of various states.

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Papering the Plains States

Allow your students to explore how stories may change depending on the perspectives from which they're told. Interesting texts and a creative writing assignment make this quite the engaging lesson.

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Whose Side of the Story?

This lesson helps your ELs identify the role of coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences in nonfiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson to Nonfiction Genres. 

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Compound Sentences in Nonfiction

Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts.

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Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

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Writing in Response to Reading

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

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Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

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Writing Opinions About Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Use this resource to assess your students’ opinion writing skills. They will respond to a prompt by formulating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and evidence from two nonfiction texts.

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Opinion Writing Learning Check

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

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Informational Writing

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

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

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Narrative Writing: Describe Characters

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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