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

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

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Learn to whip up a delicious treat as you practice important reading skills in this colorful worksheet!

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Learn all about the interesting world of the whale while practicing fluency and reading comprehension skills using this helpful nonfiction reading worksheet.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

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 learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

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.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

This worksheet gives students an opportunity to reflect on what they have read in an open-ended way.

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

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

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.

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