Summer Nonfiction Articles

Five interesting summer non-fiction articles about watermelon, ice cream, camping, seashells, and fishing. An early reader version of the same articles were included to help with differentiation within your classroom. Get your students reading and diving into informational texts with these seasonal articles. Templates for reports on each topic will help extend learning with a writing project. Sometimes you just want curriculum that also coordinates with the season and holiday that all your students are so excited about. These articles are the perfect way to bring some of the seasonal fun into your classroom!

How To Use This:

Decide which of these amazing articles you want to use in your classroom- or just choose all of them and let your students pick or rotate between them! Print the articles. Laminate for reuse. There are so many ways to use these articles. They can be independent work for early finishers or as sources for an essay, report, or summary. You could read them out loud in pairs. You could use them in small-group instruction. You could read them out loud to the whole class and then ask questions after to practice and test listening skills.

These are great to send home as homework or fill a seasonal center. You could bind them together into a little book or store them on a book ring so they stay together.

What You Get:

• - Non-fiction article about watermelon (4-6 grade reading level and 1-3 grade reading level)

• - Non-fiction article about how ice cream is made (4-6 grade reading level and 1-3 grade reading level)

• - Non-fiction article about camping (4-6 grade reading level and 1-3 grade reading level)

• - Non-fiction article about seashells (4-6 grade reading level and 1-3 grade reading level)

• - Non-fiction article about fishing (4-6 grade reading level and 1-3 grade reading level)

• - Report templates (with photos!) for each article topic

1 PDF with 20 ready to print pages