This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

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.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

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

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

History students can learn all the first modern first lady in this biography worksheet, and can develop their reading comprehension skills as well.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

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