Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, purpose, and opinion of a piece of nonfiction. Students are prompted to write a summary of the informational text.

This lesson will help students read and comprehend nonfiction, specifically biographies, through determining criteria for text complexity. Included is a PDF and Smart Notebook titled Determining Text Complexity, and an example of a...

Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...

The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

Contains plans for three lessons that use science textbooks to teach about the organizational features of nonfiction such as labels, captions, headings, and fonts. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module contains several guided reading resources. Students will be able to use the charts to guide themselves as they discuss informational texts and persuasive texts. Teachers can monitor...

[Free Registration/Login Required] With more than twenty pieces from which to choose, teachers can print out comprehension checks for their students. Each printable document includes an informational piece and questions to determine the...

Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.

Article lists a series of steps and tasks to make reading texts more efficient and clear. Written primarily for teachers of ESL students but tasks work for all students.

This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction, informational text passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...

Five easy ways to help unlock the power of informational text for all students.

Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in elementary grades. Four multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on this nonfiction reading...

Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for students in the high school grades. Five multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on thia nonfiction reading assessment.

Read the fifth-grade reading passages and charts about hurricanes by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selections. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...

This 35 question reading skills test asks student to read the supplied text and answer the comprehension questions about them.

This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.

This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask learners to compare and research information about animals from fiction and nonfiction texts. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to...

Full text and free online versions of plays, essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. Search by favorite author or title and immediately find your text of choice.

Read, analyze and answer text-dependent questions about several excerpts from a famous slave narrative called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.

Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.

This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.