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This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Finding the Topic and Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this quiz, written to recall details from the informational text Flightless Birds.

Flightless Birds Reading Comprehension

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Ocean

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

Finding the Purpose

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Write & Mark

Penguins are such interesting animals! Help your students practice identifying the main topic and key ideas in a nonfiction text using this fun penguin-themed lesson plan.

Interesting Animals: Penguins

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Main Topic Map

Use this lesson plan to introduce, preview, or review the concept of sharing an opinion using a hilarious read aloud text! This can be used as a standalone lesson or with the lesson The Little Red Hen Story Patterns.

Sharing Opinions About Stories

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Activate That Background Knowledge

What better way to represent what you’ve learned than through an infographic? In this lesson, students read nonfiction texts then create infographics to share the main topics, key ideas, evidence, and more! 

Adventures with Infographics

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

Interesting Animals: Bats

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Just Tell Me What to Do!

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Learning About the Ocean

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

Missing the Main Topic: Dogs

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun horse-themed worksheet.

Missing the Main Topic: Horses

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun sea turtle-themed worksheet.

Missing the Main Topic: Sea Turtles

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Idea Connector

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

Second grade students will step into the author’s shoes as they hunt for evidence to determine what a nonfiction author’s purpose might be.

Why I Write

Kindergarten ELs will love practicing their writing skills as they learn all about homes around the world in this fun hands-on lesson plan! It can be used on its own or as support for the What's in Your Community? lesson plan.

Describing Our Homes

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

How many legs does a pistol shrimp have? Kids answer questions about Symbiotic Relationships in this reading comprehension quiz.

Symbiotic Relationships Reading Comprehension

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

The goby fish and pistol shrimp help each other out deep in the ocean. Learn about them and other symbiotic relationships in this nonfiction story.

Symbiotic Relationships

This social studies worksheet is a great way to encourage the next generation to understand the value and impact of voting while helping learners practice reading comprehension strategies.

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