Nonfiction activities

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.

This FREE nonfiction text features scavenger hunt is such a fun, hands on, and authentic activity for students to see nonfiction text features in real informational texts or nonfiction reading passages!

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!

My students has had a fabulous time learning about the Statue of Liberty. In fact, my friend who cuts my hair told me that some of my students came into her beauty shop telling her all about the infor

Free Nonfiction Retelling Chart - using M.U.S.H. - This Reading Mama

10 Engaging Nonfiction Activities for Secondary ELA - Here is a list of ten engaging secondary ELA activities to implement in your classroom when teaching nonfiction. Teaching nonfiction texts and activities. How to teach nonfiction | Teaching nonfiction | Nonfiction teaching activities

FREE Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt! Love this nonfiction reading activity to get students engaged and excited about being nonficiton text features detectices. It is a super low prep craft that makes a "Top Secret" Text Features File tab Book. Works with any nonfiction books or informational reading comprehension passages. Geared towards elementary students in 2nd, 3rd, 4rth or 5th grade classrooms.

Check out these great Author's Purpose anchor charts. These simple charts will engage your students while they learn about identifying the author's purpose in nonfiction text. Add these to your lessons and activities to help your students gain mastery!

I don't know about you, but whenever it comes to teaching Nonfiction Text Features it seems like my teacher's toolkit is low on ideas, resources, and

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

What is it about teaching author's craft in nonfiction that makes us all a bit crazy as teachers? I hear my teacher friends talking about how difficult nonfiction is for their students to both read

Here are some strategies to teach students how to write an informative text so they can write a book about an animal.

Many teachers (and students) think teaching nonfiction is boring, but it doesn't have to be! Check out these 5 nonfiction activities that upper elementary students (and teachers) will love! Start engaging students during your nonfiction units and head to this blog today.

Get your elementary students up and moving while they learn to differentiate between fiction and nonfiction books with this exciting SCOOT game! These free task cards are the perfect resource to reinforce their understanding of fiction and nonfiction genres. Simply print the task cards, laminate for durability, and you're ready to play! Recording sheets and directions for playing are included.

Who doesn't love a good scavenger hunt? Here are 3 ways to harness the engaging power of scavenger hunts in practicing text features. Includes a reusable, FREE printable!

Learn more about how to teach nonfiction to your kindergarten students using these reading informational nonfiction resources.

Reading nonfiction strategy chart

Hate the KWL chart? Then you need to check out the RAN Chart, which stands for Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction strategy! It's more robust and helpful!

My Cooperating Teacher, Ms. Kellar as her students read non-fiction books independently and has them write down two facts they learned. This is a good way to introduce facts vs opinions.