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Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 1

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Making Connections Part 1: Literary Response

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Peer Discussions: Ask and Answer Questions

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

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Voynich Manuscript

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

Author’s Purpose Task Cards

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

Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Simple Storyboard

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Point of View

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

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Paraphrasing Practice

Students will learn about three nonfiction text features: charts, graphs, and diagrams. They will analyze and interpret the information represented in these visual forms and discover how they aid in the comprehension of nonfiction texts. 

Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Describing Characters, Settings, and Events

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they&#39;re at it.

Writing an Opinion

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

The Pentagon Tour Tips and Tricks

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

Poetry Themes

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Graphic Organizer: Author’s Point of View

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Graphic Organizer: Problem & Solution

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

That’s right! The theme applies to everyone! Use this interactive lesson to teach your students how to find the theme of a fictional text.

There’s No I in Theme-work!

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It&#39;s packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

Reading Closely

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Storyboard

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

A Misty Copeland Biography

Teach your students the importance of text features with informational readings about endangered species around the world. This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.

Endangered Species Exploration

Charts, graphs, and diagrams are complex text features for students to decipher. Use this lesson to familiarize students with these features. It can be taught on its own or before the lesson Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

Introduction to Charts and Diagrams

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Stand Up Like Malala

Did you know that comparative tasks improve comprehension and help students develop higher order thinking skills? In this lesson, students will compare nonfiction texts on the same topic using Venn diagrams and performance!

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