A Florida FAST 3rd grade reading practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 13 benchmarks, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A Florida FAST 4th grade reading practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 13 benchmarks, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 5th grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A NJSLA-A 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 19 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 4th grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
The Rattlesnake Wrestlers Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 3rd graders a non-fiction passage about snake rescuers, four multiple choice questions and a written response, with an answer key for fast grading.
This Cupcake Power Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd Grade readers a short nonfiction text about what makes a cupcake rise, five questions, and an answer key, so students practice finding evidence in what they read.
Real facts, real readers
Informational text teaches kids about the real world: animals, places, science and history. Young readers learn to find the main idea and the key details that back it up. They use text features like headings, captions, bold words and diagrams to find facts fast. As they grow, they compare two texts on the same topic and explain how an author supports a point. The click moment comes when a child says, "I can just check the heading to find that!"
Nonfiction gets fun when kids read like fact detectives. These are the moves we use most.
Project a passage and talk through it before reading: "The heading says Desert Snakes, so this part is about where they live." Then read and underline one key detail together. Kids copy that habit fast.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withRattlesnake Wrestlers Reading Comprehension WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Give a short passage with a few questions once a week and go over the answers together. Ask kids to point to the sentence that proves each answer. Finding evidence is the skill that grows.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withFlorida FAST 3rd Grade Reading Practice Test WorkbookAssessmentsOpen it →Short and often beats one long nonfiction unit. Rotate topics like animals, food and weather so kids practice the same skills with fresh facts every time.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withFlorida FAST 4th Grade Reading Practice Test WorkbookWorkbooksOpen it →Turn nonfiction into a hunt, a game or a challenge.
WorksheetsRead a sweet passage like one about cupcakes and have kids sort sentences into facts and opinions.
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Test PrepKids race to find a heading, a caption, a bold word and a diagram in any nonfiction book.
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Test PrepAfter reading, each child teaches one new fact to a partner like a news reporter.
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It is nonfiction writing that teaches facts about the real world. Articles, science books, how-to guides and biographies are all informational text.
Parts of a nonfiction text that help readers find information, like headings, captions, bold words, diagrams and a table of contents.
Ask, "What is this mostly about?" after each paragraph, then look for the details that support it. Headings are a great first clue.
Fiction tells a made-up story, while informational text teaches true facts. Kids read them differently: for a story we follow characters, and for nonfiction we hunt for facts.
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