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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: 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!

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: 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!

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

Do dogs bark, flap, or swing? Pair animals with relevant verbs in this first- and second-grade worksheet!

Become a number detective in this riddle-filled worksheet!

Become a disaster detective in this fun science worksheet!

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

Become a genetic detective with this inquisitive life-science worksheet!

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

Crack the case of the end marks wide open with this first- and second-grade worksheet about statements and questions!

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.

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

Can you guess the job? Put your detective skills to the test in this fun worksheet for second and third graders!