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2nd - 4th Grade Nonfiction Make Connections Resources

The world is full of amazing creatures! Learn about a few from around the globe, as your child hones reading skills in this fact-filled workbook.

Animals of the World

Explore nonfiction with this set of short and sweet facts on notable people, places and events in history. Young readers can practice taking notes, answering questions and analyzing primary sources.

Reading Nonfiction

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Life Cycle of a Plant

Did you know there are 6 simple machines that make up every complicated gizmo out there? This book introduces the pulley, the lever, the screw, the wedge, the inclined plane and the wheel & axle.

Simple Machines

Did you know that light can bend? Help your curious kids learn the important physical properties of light and explore how light adds colors to our world, with this beautiful series on light and color.

Light and Color

Get your hands dirty in the name of science! Explore the basic elements of the earth's surface with this beginner's guide to rocks, soil, and processes that change them.

Can You Dig It: Rocks and Soil

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

All About Jane Goodall

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Facts About Capybara

This workbook takes a snapshot of select heroes from Norse and Irish-Celtic stories: Thor and Cu Chullain. Their exciting deeds give kids noteworthy reading, writing and critical thinking practice.

Men of Myth

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

A Series of Events: The Boston Tea Party

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

A Misty Copeland Biography

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Facts About Geckos

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect: The Industrial Revolution

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Cause and Effect: The Titanic

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

All About Misty Copeland

Thinking Routine: Parts, Purposes, and Complexities

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

All About Katherine Johnson

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Biography: Booker T. Washington

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Mexican Music Facts

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

Cause and Effect: Thunderstorms

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

A Series of Events: The Water Cycle

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

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2nd - 4th Grade Nonfiction Make Connections Resources