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Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Informational Outlines 2

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Informational Outlines 1

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

Informational Writing Learning Check

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

Personal Stories in Informational Writing

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

Informational Writing Check-Up

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Informational Writing Check-In

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Informational Outlines 3

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in 3-4 sentences.

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Discovering Details

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Reading Response Letter Interactive

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

Students will discover three techniques to hook readers: with an interesting fact, a question, or by imagining a scene.

Hooks in Informational Writing

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Crafting an Awesome Title

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Organize Your Informational Essay: Travel

Organize Your Informational Essay: Health

Organize Your Informational Essay: Pets

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