Graphic Organizers for Reading Nonfiction Texts with Middle and High School Students
Reading nonfiction texts with middle and high school students helps build knowledge about factual topics, increase critical thinking skills, improve vocabulary, and strengthen the ability to analyze multiple formats of information. These skills are critical for preparing students for life after high school, whether they will need to read instruction manuals in a job site, conduct research in university, follow a recipe to cook dinner, or simply use a manual to build a bookshelf.
In today's blog post, we're excited to share a few of our favorite graphic organizers to make reading and comprehending nonfiction texts a bit easier.
Navigate a Nonfiction Text with a Summary Worksheet
Improve your students' reading comprehension with this useful graphic organizer. Whether reading news articles, nonfiction books, or any other type of text, this worksheet will help students to summarize the key information. We love this summary worksheet because it's fully customizable for ANY nonfiction text.
With this resource, students will be able to:
- Underline keywords in the informational text
- Write questions they have while reading
- Evaluate the topic of the nonfiction passage
- Describe the main idea
- Identify three key details from the passage that support the main idea and write exact quotes from the text
- Write a four-sentence summary of the article
This graphic organizer is a great way to help students organize their thoughts and understand the main ideas of any text.
Use Description-Themed Task Cards to Analyze Informational Texts
Elevate your students' critical thinking skills with these 6 engaging description task cards. Designed to help students closely analyze sets of nonfiction information, each card offers a unique challenge that encourages deeper comprehension and understanding.
Key features of this product include:
- A collection of 6 task cards that promote critical thinking and nonfiction reading skills
- Challenges that include creating graphic organizers, identifying signal words, and sketching illustrations of the text
- Suitable for both independent and group work, offering flexibility in classroom instruction
- Ideal for preparing students for standardized testing and developing close reading skills
- Printable on standard 8.5 x 11 in paper for easy use
Determine the Main Idea with Printable Task Cards
Have your students ever asked, "Why are we reading this? What's the point?" We love challenging students to think deeply about why writers create informational texts. To help students search for the purpose of specific nonfiction materials, we recommend using main idea task cards. This set of 6 task cards prompts students to think critically about two sets of information by providing a variety of main ideas and supporting details text feature challenges. These challenges include:
- Drawing graphic organizers
- Creating symbols that represent the main ideas and supporting details
- Highlighting signal words
- Making predictions based on the passage title
Discover Causes and Effects of Events with Nonfiction Task Cards
As students read informational texts about natural disasters, political events, and other major changes, they may wonder, "How did this happen? How did things get to this point?" We love using cause and effect task cards to help students search for answers to those questions.
Key features of these cause and effect task cards include:
- A collection of 6 task cards that promote critical thinking and nonfiction reading skills
- Challenges that include creating a paper chain that shows the sequence of events, drawing a graphic organizer that allows students to doodle symbols, and highlighting signal words within the assigned reading passage
- Suitable for both independent and group work, offering flexibility in classroom instruction
- Ideal for preparing students for standardized testing and developing close reading skills
- Printable on standard 8.5 x 11 in paper for easy use
Decorate the Classroom with Informational Text Features Posters
Enhance your students' understanding of informational texts with this comprehensive poster set. Featuring 6 distinct text features, including cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequential order, main ideas and supporting details, description, and chronological order, this set explains the purpose of each feature and provides signal words to aid in reading comprehension.
Key features of this poster collection include:
- Six informative posters that clearly explain each text feature and its purpose
- Signal words that help students identify and comprehend the text feature
- Vibrant and eye-catching colors that will brighten up any classroom
- Large size (12x18 in) that allows for easy viewing from anywhere in the classroom
- Simple trimming along the outside of the rectangle to easily display on bulletin boards or walls
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