Practical Elementary Resources

Students struggling with main idea? These 2nd Grade nonfiction science task cards are designed to give targeted practice to second graders learning to find the main idea in nonfiction passages. Featuring 30 short reading passages, these cards help students identify the main idea, differentiate between the main idea and supporting details, and build background on 2nd-grade NGSS-aligned science topics. Passages are organized into three topics: Matter, Plants & Habitats, and Earth's Systems. Each

Students struggling with nonfiction text comprehension? Are they having difficulty finding important details and referencing the text to find an answer? These nonfiction reading comprehension task cards are designed to help 2nd-grade students boost their comprehension of informational text. Through repeated practice, students engage in referencing the text, rereading for important details, and referencing the text to find an answer to a multiple-choice question. The cards are designed to suppo

Build scientific vocabulary and background knowledge with these main-idea task cards. As students transition to third-grade reading, many struggle to identify the main idea of a nonfiction paragraph. It doesn't help that main idea itself can become a series of dry, repetitive series of practice sessions for many of our students, especially our ESL ones. I built these task cards for those students. With differentiated difficulty levels, introductions to core scientific vocabulary, and engaging p