Worksheets

Skill: Non-Fiction Reading and Writing

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• Dear Mr. President

  Description:

        Encourage your students to voice their opinions to the President with this reproducible letter-writing activity.

  
  

• Interview a Woman in Your Life

  Description:

        To celebrate Women's History Month, have students interview a woman whom they admire.

  
  

• Headline Hunt

  Description:

        Build your students' writing skills with this page

  
  

• A Day in the Life

  Description:

        Provide students with some background knowledge of China with this reproducible schedule showing a day in the life of a 10-year-old boy in China.

  
  

• "The World Health Crisis" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's story on the world health crisis

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        A reproducible highlighting the features of a news story.

  
  

• Inventions, Then and Now

  Description:

        Encourage students to interview family members to find out how some common inventions have changed over the years.

  
  

• Inventor Organizer

  Description:

        Challenge your students to research an inventor and write a biographical essay about him or her. This reproducible organizer will help them get started.

  
  

• Headline News

  Description:

        Have your students classify the news stories highlighted in this week's issue of TFK using this reproducible.

  
  

• Making a Cartoon Connection

  Description:

        Give your students practice analyzing a cartoon with this reproducible.

  
  

• Pluto Space Programs

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a schedule with this reproducible.

  
  

• Take the Lead!

  Description:

        Give your students practice analyzing and writing a lead with this reproducible.

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        A reproducible on finding nonfiction text features

  
  

• Build-A-Robot Brainstorm

  Description:

        Have students use this graphic organizer to design and plan their own robot.

  
  

• Tell It to Congress

  Description:

        Use this letter-writing activity to have your students express their views on child labor to Congress.

  
  

• Get to Know TFK

  Description:

        Explore the different parts of TFK magazine

  
  

• Strong Verbs

  Description:

        Use strong verbs to improve and rewrite a paragraph about Mark McGwire

  
  

• Detail Detectives

  Description:

        Practice identifying different parts of a magazine and a story. Plus, recall, reflect and summarize different part of TFK

  
  

• TIME for the Facts

  Description:

        Identify facts and opinions in a list of news-related statements

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        Identify steps in the scientific method in science news stories