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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

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

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text:  Fidget Spinners

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 worksheet to teach your students how to write declarative sentences with details from an informational text.

Answering Questions: 5Ws + H 

This lesson plan teaches kids about W.E.B. Du Bois through video and a short informational text. Students will compare/contrast their findings and create a poster in small groups showing what they learned.

Learning About W.E.B. Du Bois

In this lesson, students will use an informational text passage to ask and answer questions. Using biographies, your students will learn about two famous figures in history.

Who Was Alvin Ailey?

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text: Bears

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

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Close Reading: Questions & Answers

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

Teach your students to explain details in a text by using declarative sentences. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Color Coding Nonfiction Text* lesson.

Evidence as a Statement

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing!

Finding Irrelevant Details

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Question Web

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text. 

Determining Importance

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Draw a Caption Illustration

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

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

With this worksheet students will use evidence from a text to make a prediction about a character’s responses.

Character Actions and Reactions

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

My Research Notes

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

Learn more about a patriotic piece of history with this informational page on the original Star-Spangled Banner.

National Treasures: The Star-Spangled Banner

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

Making Inferences: Where Are They?

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Asking Questions: Before, During, and After

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

Introductory Phrases: Cite the Evidence

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