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For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Write a Detective Comic!

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Text Grammar

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Fix the Text Grammar

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

What Does This Text Message Mean?

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Writing Conclusions for Informational Text

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Writing an Introduction for Informational Text

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Making Sense of Text Message Language

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

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

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

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

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

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

Reading Response Letter Interactive

These cut-and-paste cards provide students with steps for writing the introduction, body, and conclusion parts of an informational text.

Conclusion Cards

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

State Your Claim

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

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

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

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

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

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

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

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to cite their answers based on inferences they make about a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Colorful Coding.

Citing Inferences

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

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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