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This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Previewing Using Text Features

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Exploring Text Features

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Starfish Text Features

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Glossary: Nonfiction Text Features

Learning the difference between facts and opinions is a valuable life skill and a powerful mindfulness practice. This worksheet asks children and caregivers to assume the role of fact detectives as they orchestrate a facts and opinions scavenger hunt in t

Fact Detective

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Dictionary Detective

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

Nonfiction Text Summary Organizer

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Glossary: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Exploring Fictional Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Glossary: Learning About Text Features

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Vocabulary Cards: Nonfiction Text Features

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Vocabulary Cards: Learning About Text Features

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Text-Based Fact or Opinion

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

I Can Make Predictions and Summarize Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Play family detective and learn how to read old census documents.

Search Census Records

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 is Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective of them all. He spends his days solving mysteries around London with his assistant, Watson.

Color Sherlock Holmes

Ready for another round of where in the world? Be an international math detective as you solve addition problems to discover the secret location!

Where In The World #3

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.

Note-Taking from a Text

Give your child a fun review of longitude and latitude with this fun detective activity! She'll hunt down a wanted criminal using the coordinates given.

Latitude and Longitude Practice

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

Are your students confusing plural noun endings? Use this worksheet to help them with noun pluralization patterns! Students will put on their detective hats as they search for clues in singular nouns that will help them determine the correct plural form.

Plural Nouns: Final Letter Clues

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Learning About Maps!

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

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