Nonfiction Reading Activities

Task cards, pictures, anchor charts, passages, graphic organizers, and other activities to help elementary students with nonfiction reading. Teachers can find sentence stems and mentor texts to create engaging lesson plans.
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See Think Wonder Reading Activity
Are you looking for engaging reading activities to use with your students? Do your students struggle with actively thinking about the text as they read? These engaging Newsela reading activities using the See, Think, Wonder strategy are guaranteed to be effective with your intermediate elementary students. Plus they are a perfect way to practice nonfiction reading strategies as this type of reading can be challenging for students. Get the FREE graphic organizer and anchor chart to get started!
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Reading Comprehension Practice with See Think Wonder Strategy
Are you looking for engaging reading activities to use with your students? Do your students struggle with actively thinking about the text as they read? These engaging Newsela reading activities using the See, Think, Wonder strategy are guaranteed to be effective with your intermediate elementary students. Plus they are a perfect way to practice nonfiction reading strategies as this type of reading can be challenging for students. Get the FREE graphic organizer and anchor chart to get started!
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Reading Comprehension Practice with See Think Wonder Strategy
Are you looking for engaging reading activities to use with your students? Do your students struggle with actively thinking about the text as they read? These engaging Newsela reading activities using the See, Think, Wonder strategy are guaranteed to be effective with your intermediate elementary students. Plus they are a perfect way to practice nonfiction reading strategies as this type of reading can be challenging for students. Get the FREE graphic organizer and anchor chart to get started!
In search of ways to integrate more nonfiction into your class instruction? This blog post lists 10 ideas for bringing in more nonfiction texts and reading activities. Click through to learn more about how to integrate more nonfiction! Upper Elementary Resources, Reading Response, Character Education Activities, Owl Teacher, Read Aloud Books, Author Studies, Nonfiction Texts, Book Talk
10 Ways to Integrate More Nonfiction into your Classroom
In search of ways to integrate more nonfiction into your class instruction? This blog post lists 10 ideas for bringing in more nonfiction texts and reading activities. Click through to learn more about how to integrate more nonfiction!
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Nonfiction Picture Books Your Upper Elementary Students Will Love
This list of 11 informational children's books will help you find engaging books that your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students will love. These are some of the best nonfiction books for kids to help them learn to love reading. There are fascinating biographies, interesting books about animals, inventions, and more for your upper elementary students.
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Text Feature Surgery Classroom Transformation
Text features are such an important part of understanding informational texts, but let’s be honest – they can be challenging for students to grasp. I’m sharing everything you’ll need to take engagement to the next level and make nonfiction text feature surgery come to life in your classroom! Reading | Literacy | Language Arts | Writing | Primary Teacher | Elementary Teacher | Nonfiction | Text Features #ClassroomTransformation #RoomTransformation
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Free Nonfiction Articles for Kids and Reading at Home Tips - Class Tech Tips
Are you looking for resources to recommend to families, or use with your own young children? Earlier this year, I featured PebbleGo on my site and lots of ways to use their reading platform in the classroom. With a sudden shift to distance learning, I wanted to share with you a few quick tips and free nonfiction articles for kids. #Sponsored #Literacy #Reading
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Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Texts
We are almost at the end of our non-fiction unit in upper elementary. Last week, we did a brief review of the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting texts. These are huge skills for fourth and fifth grade students. Check out how we made this reading unit come alive! #upperelementary #languagearts #nonfictionreading
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Fun Ideas for Teaching Nonfiction Text Features
Do you ever feel like it's challenging to make lessons over nonfiction text features engaging? This post shares ideas, activities, and games that will make exploring nonfiction text features your students new favorite unit! Plus there's even a bonus freebie included! #annabrantleysteachingresources #nonfictiontextfeatures #firstgrade
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Text Feature Surgery Classroom Transformation
Text features are such an important part of understanding informational texts. Here's everything you’ll need to take engagement to the next level and make nonfiction text feature surgery come to life in your classroom! #Nonfiction #TextFeatures #TextFeatureSurgery #RoomTransformation #ClassroomTransformation #PrimaryTeacher #Elementary #ClassroomIdeas #LessonIdeas #1stGrade #2ndGrade #Reading #Writing #LanguageArts #TeachingIdeas #RockYourSchool #TeacherIdeas
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Ocean Life: Nonfiction Reading and Writing Unit (Determine Importance) - The K Files
Are your students having trouble retelling the main idea of their nonfiction texts? The Most Important Word strategy will make it so much easier for them! This Nonfiction Reading and Writing Unit (Determine Importance) allows students to determine the importance of what is read. Students can summarize main ideas and details when retelling or writing nonfiction topics. Perfect for both Reader's Workshop and Writer's Workshop. #readersworkshop #firstgrade
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The Ultimate List of Interesting Research Topics for Kids - Wife Teacher Mommy
Looking for science or social studies topics for your students to research? Check out our list of research topics for kids. These fun and engaging activities are perfect for students to practice their research skills for a research unit or project. Kids can use informational text and fill out their research journal, outline, & graphic organizer. Resources, products and a free printable are included in this post. Lots of tips for teaching research on website. Fits common core and other standards.
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5 OF MY FAVORITE NON-FICTION SERIES TO ENGAGE READERS
5 of My Favorite Non-Fiction Series to Engage Readers. FREEBIES to go with each book series. Perfect for elementary and upper grades.