Detail Sorter

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 strengthen close-reading and analytical skills by sorting details from an informational passage about fungi. After carefully reading the text, students extract specific facts and place them into three categories-Roles in Ecosystems, Visible Structures and Growth, and Human Uses-requiring them to rely on evidence directly from the passage and distinguish between different types of information.

Learning Goals

• Informational Text Analysis (Grades 5-7) – Read closely to identify and interpret key details from a nonfiction passage.
• Identifying Supporting Information – Determine how individual facts relate to broader ideas within the text.
• Understanding Fungi and Ecosystems – Build science knowledge about fungi’s structures, functions, and importance.
• Sorting Evidence into Categories – Organize complex information logically based on topic and purpose.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to support content-area reading and text-dependent analysis.
• Strong Text Evidence Focus – Students must use only information found in the passage.
• Cross-Curricular Learning – Reinforces science concepts while building ELA comprehension skills.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for guided reading, independent practice, small groups, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students learn how informational texts are built from different types of details that serve specific purposes. By sorting facts about fungi into clear categories, learners build confidence in close reading, evidence-based thinking, and information organization. It is a simple, no-prep resource for classroom and homeschool settings that strengthens nonfiction comprehension, scientific understanding, and critical-thinking skills.

This worksheet is part of our Classifying and Categorizing Information Worksheets collection.