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Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

summarize a nonfiction text

Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

create a nonfiction text summary

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

notetaking from a text

Note-Taking from a Text

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

drawing conclusions

Drawing Conclusions

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

make a summary butterflies

Make a Summary: Butterflies

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

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Digging Deep into Purpose and Vocabulary

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.

sun notetaking

Sun Notetaking

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

Main Topic Worksheet

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 cuzcuz and roly

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

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

raccoon revision

Raccoon Revision

Are your second graders struggling with reading comprehension? Help them understand how prosody can help their understanding of the text with this reading lesson plan.

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Punctuation & Prosody

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

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Storyboard

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

making predictions and summarizing

Making Predictions and Summarizing

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.

all about wangari maathai

All About Wangari Maathai

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.

finding the details and asking for answers

Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

In this lesson, students use highlighters, graphic organizers, and a classic fable to exercise their understanding of key details and main idea in a text. They will use manipulatives to promote visual and kinetic learning styles.

fantastic fables 5 ws

Fantastic Fables: 5 W's

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.

the five ws of notetaking

The Five W's of Notetaking

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

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Learning About the Ocean

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

Use this lesson to teach students about the importance of reading fluently to support comprehension. Use as a stand alone activity or a support for the Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension lesson plan.

reading fluently to support comprehension

Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

the elements of fiction creating a story map

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

In this series of maps, charts and match-ups your child will learn to use his logic to read contextual clues and label the information. Every picture has a story to tell!

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

time transition word sort

Time Transition Word Sort

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

learning about dorothy pitman hughes

Learning About Dorothy Pitman Hughes

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

all about misty copeland

All About Misty Copeland

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

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Who is Angela Davis?

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this worksheet.

the first allfemale spacewalk

The First All-Female Spacewalk

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

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