Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing Nonfiction.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing Nonfiction.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

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.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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.

Find out how islands form in this informative worksheet! 

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

Trace the steps behind a natural phenomenon with this third- through fifth-grade cause-and-effect reading worksheet!

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Learners practice writing endings with impact in this nonfiction conclusion writing worksheet.

Learn all about legendary magician Harry Houdini in this nonfiction reading worksheet.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.