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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

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

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

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

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.

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.

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

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

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

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

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.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

This one page printable features the Hanukkah story for kids in a very short version.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.