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Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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.

Nonfiction Notetaker

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Birthday Party: Predictions

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

All About Leafcutter Ants

Guide students through the challenging task of unpacking the main idea of a text.

What’s This All About? Unpacking the Main Idea!

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

Who Is Mae Jemison?

This lesson plan teaches students about Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a black human rights activist, feminist, and child-care advocate. First, students will read a short passage, and then they will answer questions about important details from the text. Created for first graders and second graders, this engaging lesson helps build students' vocabulary and informational writing skills.

Who Was Dorothy Pitman Hughes?

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

Comprehension Chart

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages. 

How to Find the Main Idea

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

All About Animals Report

After reading a short text about a new puppy, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

New Puppy: Predictions

Is your child crazy about sharks? Give him a fun and informational coloring page, all about the great white shark!

Great White Shark Coloring Page

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Making Inferences With Pictures

Making notes about what you liked in an author's writing is the first step to building a strong relationship with a text.

Learning from Other Authors

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

What Lives in the Lake?

What Lives in the Desert?

What Lives in the Sea?

Look at the colorful illustrations and decide which text best describes the image!

Choose the Caption

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

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it&#39;s missing text.

Fill in the Story

Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn! 

Be a Nonfiction Detective!

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

Animal Research

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! As students read an informational passage about dogs, they’ll identify the main topic.

Finding the Main Idea: Dogs

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Cuz-Cuz and Roly

This graphic organizer introduces kids to informational writing by asking them to explain how to play a game to a new friend.

How Do We Play This Game?

In this interactive text, new readers can learn the science about all the good things spiders do for nature and practice reading, too.

I Hate Spiders: Level H

In this interactive story, kids can follow along with the text about that's all about starting a band, and explore more complex vocabulary and sentences. 

A Band: Level I

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

Basking Shark Coloring Page

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