This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Do you know why hammerhead sharks have such a funny-shaped head? Here's a fun and informational shark coloring page for you and your child to share!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Learning about text features, such as Table of Contents, is an important part of learning how to read.

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

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

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.

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.