As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

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

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Read sentences from the Constitution to help your students find and understand conditional sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.