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It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Finding the Topic and Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Ocean

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

George Washington, a Man of Firsts

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this quiz, written to recall details from the informational text Flightless Birds.

Flightless Birds Reading Comprehension

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Identifying Key Ideas with Repeated Words and Phrases

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Activate That Background Knowledge

What better way to represent what you’ve learned than through an infographic? In this lesson, students read nonfiction texts then create infographics to share the main topics, key ideas, evidence, and more! 

Adventures with Infographics

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

Interesting Animals: Bats

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Just Tell Me What to Do!

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

Learning About the Ocean

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

Second grade students will step into the author’s shoes as they hunt for evidence to determine what a nonfiction author’s purpose might be.

Why I Write

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Monterey: A City of the Sea

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

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

How many legs does a pistol shrimp have? Kids answer questions about Symbiotic Relationships in this reading comprehension quiz.

Symbiotic Relationships Reading Comprehension

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

The goby fish and pistol shrimp help each other out deep in the ocean. Learn about them and other symbiotic relationships in this nonfiction story.

Symbiotic Relationships

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Write & Mark

This social studies worksheet is a great way to encourage the next generation to understand the value and impact of voting while helping learners practice reading comprehension strategies.

Why Do We Vote?

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy Graphic Organizer

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

In this lesson, your students will practice their reading comprehension and vocabulary with the Pledge of Allegiance. They will reflect on the meaning of the pledge.

All About the Pledge of Allegiance

Use this lesson to teach your students about Frederick Douglass and the impact that words had on his life. First, they will read a picture book that shares facts and beautiful illustrations to teach about his life. Then, they'll complete a graphic organizer with peers to record important details and events in his life. Students will then demonstrate understanding by creating a poster with images and key words that stand out when they think about Frederick Douglass.

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