Nonfiction comprehension

Looking for ways to motivate your students to read? I always find that using nonfiction gets my students interested and ready to participate. That's why I created these five nonfiction articles free for your classroom! Graphic organizer also included. Read my blog post for how to work these articles into your day and find out how to grab these free articles!

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

Nonfiction Text Features Chart {FREE} - This Reading Mama

Free nonfiction main idea reading comprehension passage and questions to practice finding the main idea and details in a passage.

An early lesson you want to teach your students is the difference in books that tell stories and books that give information. I have found that the best way to teach this is within context of different types of texts. Let's read more about some resources that I have used to teach the differences in the two types, as well as meet our pesky friend, the BOOK BANDIT! We begin the unit learning the text features of both types of texts by creating this anchor chart and using real text examples to…

Do your students enjoy nonfiction? If the answer is no, check out this post for tips on how to better read and use nonfiction text features.

Summary: Nonfiction and Fiction

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Use this free printable to help your learners make a nonfiction text features folder. Learners write the purpose and include examples under each flap.

This blog post details a fun and effective lesson for teaching students how to use the important details in a text to create a visualization, which is so important reading comprehension. The blog post includes a nonfiction text that can be downloaded.

This FREE Main Idea Activity Pack is a great way to help learners work backwards at figuring out the main idea of a text. You might also like our Retelling Bundle – for both fiction and nonfiction! *The free download can be found at the END of this post post. Click on the teal download ... Read More about Main Idea Activity Pack

Have fun comparing Fiction and Nonfiction texts in the classroom with these easy to prepare ideas! If so, we have a few activities you can try out to help your kiddos see the similarities and differences between the two types of text. Class Discussion + Anchor Chart Select 2 books on one topic. As a class, take a picture walk through both books. Decide which is fiction and which is nonfiction. Have your kiddos help you make post it notes to label their reasons. You could also divide into…

This printable warm-up features a short, nonfiction reading passage about cats and questions to check reading comprehension. Use this reading warm-up about animals to give students practice with nonfiction text.

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Discover the magic of Walt Disney while improving students' nonfiction reading skills. This printable warm-up includes a short biography and reading comprehension questions.

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Free reading comprehension passages for grades 2 - 3

Enjoy a FREE copy of a nonfiction text features booklet! This is a great asset to Reader's Workshop!

Are your students working on their reading comprehension? Are they learning about snails? This resource is perfect for you! Made for kindergarten and first-grade students. Comes with 3 different reading passages, 6 pages total.

5 Ideas for Teaching Students How to Read Nonfiction — THE CLASSROOM NOOK