Reading Nonfiction

Worksheet Description

The “Finding Facts” worksheet is an educational tool that prompts students to extract information from a nonfiction book. It starts by having students select a book and specify its topic at the top of the sheet. As they read, students are directed to write down individual facts they learn into separate squares, ensuring they process and record specific pieces of information. The worksheet further asks students to consider the overarching main idea of the book and to identify the most important facts by circling them, integrating comprehension with fact identification.

This worksheet is aimed at teaching students to actively read nonfiction texts and to discern individual facts from the material. It guides them in recognizing and noting down discrete pieces of information, which helps to improve focus and retention. The activity of determining the main idea of the book and highlighting the most crucial facts encourages students to analyze the significance of information and its relevance to the central concept of the text. This practice fosters critical thinking and is essential for developing research and summarization skills.