ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Pioneer Families [Pdf]
"Pioneer Families" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about pioneers who traveled west in wagon trains, the hardships they faced, and how they worked together to build communities. It is followed by questions which require...
Read Works
Read Works: Getting Around Alaska
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how people get around in Alaska by using skis, dogsleds, and snowmobiles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Good Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that hibernate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, young scholars read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other Reptiles
This book checks facts related to the book Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne. When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure, they had lots of questions. Magic Treehouse Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Nonfiction Passages and Functional Texts Worksheets
In this learning module, students will practice reading nonfiction passages. Students will also have the opportunity to answer multiple choice comprehension questions, answer short and extended response questions, and take a test. This...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
This lesson plan deals with timelines in connection to nonfiction reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Pandas and Other Endangered Species
This book checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Pandas and Other Endangered Species, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
This is an online study guide for the nonfiction book A Hope In the Unseen by Ron Suskind including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction
Analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Stalin: A Brutal Legacy Uncovered
A learning module that begins with A Brutal Legacy Uncovered" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Why Do We Hate Love?
A learning module that begins with "Why Do We Hate Love?" by Robert Firestone, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Serving in Florida: Excerpt From Nickle and Dimed
A learning module that begins with "Serving in Florida" Excerpt from Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From the Prince
A learning module that begins with " Excerpt from The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Three Types of Friendship" Excerpt From the Nicomachean Ethics
A learning module that begins with "Three Types of Friendship"--Excerpt from the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Curse of the Inability to Imagine
A learning module that begins with "The Curse of the Inability to Imagine" by Tania Lombrozo, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: America's Shifting Views on Immigration
A learning module that begins with "America's Shifting Views on Immigration" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: On Revenge
A learning module that begins with "On Revenge" by Sir Francis Bacon, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...