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After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

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Read, Tell, Write

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

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Pick a Page

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

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.

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Activate That Background Knowledge

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

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Reading Report: My Favorite Part

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! 

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Adventures with Infographics

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

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Talk About Texts

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

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Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

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Read the Pictures

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

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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.

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Just Tell Me What to Do!

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

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Learning About Dorothy Pitman Hughes

What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.

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Story vs. Poem

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

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The Tortoise and the Ducks

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

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Choose the Best Ending

It’s time to take a trip around the world and experience Christmas in different countries. Students will explore how their Christmas traditions compare and contrast with kids across the world and chart their findings on a Venn diagram. 


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Comparing and Contrasting Christmas Around the World

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

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Picture Clues

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

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Literature Sleuth

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

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Character Interview

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

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Idea Connector

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

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Procedural Writing

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.

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Teach Me How To...

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

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Caterpillar

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

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Book Preview

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

Introduce students to fictional story elements with a book by first grade favorite, Mo Willems! This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details lesson plan.

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Finding the Key Details

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details. 

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What Happened?

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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