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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

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

What Are You Reading?

Let your fourth grader play triangle detective: can she spot the acute triangles on this worksheet?

Identifying Triangles: Acute Triangles

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

Turn your fourth grader into a geometry detective! How many degrees is each missing angle in these quadrilaterals?

The Missing Angle: Quadrilaterals

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

In this excerpt from an upcoming math workbook, your junior detective will make a positive ID on obtuse, acute and right angles.

Laser Angles

Invite your learner to be a geometry detective as they find the missing base in a series of acute triangles!&nbsp;

Acute Triangles: Find the Missing Base

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

Ready for another round of where in the world? Be an international math detective as you solve addition problems to discover the secret location!

Where In The World #3

Using her long division savvy, your child will help Detective Zoey Chase track a notorious criminal in this adventure-filled 5th grade math worksheet.

Division Game: Eastern USA

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Note-Taking from a Text

Your child will solve long division problems to help Detective Zoey track a notorious criminal across the West Coast, USA in this 5th grade math worksheet.

Division Game: Western USA

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Drawing Conclusions

Do you have a little detective around the house who loves to find things? See if he can find the secret message in this puzzle.

Secret Message 2

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Key Vocabulary

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Reading Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams From Nonfiction Texts

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Nonfiction Text Structures #3: Description

Play detective as you put your geometry skills to the test! This game is a great way to get to know the coordinate plane and practice plotting ordered pairs.

Coordinate Grid Game!

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text: Bears

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Central Idea and Key Details

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Close Reading: Questions & Answers

Learners will help the detectives complete their crime report and solve a curious case by adding the missing descriptive adjectives!

The Descriptive Detectives

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

Missing Voices: Nonfiction Perspectives

Prepositions add valuable information to nonfiction texts by helping us understand where and when something happened. In this activity, students will seek to identify prepositions and use them to complete sentences with the help of a word bank.

Part 1: Prepositional Phrases in Nonfiction Text

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Nonfiction Text Structures #2: Cause and Effect

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