Teaching nonfiction

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.

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

I’m popping in to share an activity I did to get kids thinking about summarizing nonfiction texts. I got this...

When it comes to reading nonfiction, my students tend to get bleary-eyed and hard-of-hearing. It’s like they instantly think of their history textbooks and informational articles and they decide before they even know the topic that they aren’t going to like it. And that is one of the big hurdles when it comes to teaching nonfiction texts at the middle school and high school level.

Looking for ways to motivate students to read? Try these five free nonfiction articles to use in your classroom. No prep and ready to go!

These are strategies I've used to teach nonfiction text structure efficiently in my classroom, AND my students actually enjoyed the lessons!

Last week, we finished our final project for our nonfiction text features and structures study. Now, we are working on...

It's no secret I've absolutely fallen in love with novel studies in my classroom. Small group novel studies are an amazing way to get my ...

Struggling with how to teach summarizing? Help students master the fine art of summary with graphic organizers for nonfiction and fiction!