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Kindergarten students will become text feature detectives as they hunt for the different text features found in nonfiction books in this fun reading lesson.

Are You a Text Detective?

Use this handy worksheet to help students practice identifying the parts of a fiction text.

Parts of a Fiction Text

Help your preschooler understand there are different types of text to be read in books, and practice some handwriting on some big words.

What Type of Text?

Move along in our set of book concepts for preschoolers with a reminder to read text from top to bottom and a handwriting exercise for your little learner.

How to Read Text

Children will crack the case using adjectives, descriptions, and process of elimination.

Ice Cream Detective

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Turn Your Child into a Letter Detective!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Alphabet Hunt

Detective time! In this lesson, your students will become shape detectives and go on a shape hunt to find the missing shapes on a grid.

A Place for a Shape

Your students will love helping two stuffed animals solve a cookie argument! They will practice their detective skills as they play a Missing Cookie Game.

Counting Cookies!

Use this lesson plan as a stand alone or support lesson to introduce or review nonfiction text features to your ELs.

All About Nonfiction

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

Who Is Mae Jemison?

Look at the colorful illustrations and decide which text best describes the image!

Choose the Caption

In this leveled book about a band, kids can follow along with the text as they match them to pictures for quick reading practice.

A Band: Level AA

Do your students know when to start new paragraphs within a narrative text? Give them a little practice organizing a narrative piece of writing with this worksheet!

A New Paragraph Narrative

Early readers can use picture clues to help figure out new or unknown words. In this reading fluency worksheet, students learn how examining pictures for context clues can help them decode text.

Word Meaning: Picture Clues

Bag, cat and cap are all examples of short A words that kindergarteners will be learning to read this year. You can support this learning with a guided exploration of the short A sound. Kids will be taught how to identify the short A within text, in addition to the corresponding sound. Check out our short A printables for more phonics practice.

Short A 1

In this fun music and text inspired lesson plan your students will love making their own shape pictures as they learn all about 2D shapes! It can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes.

How Do You Know the Shape?

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

Talk About Texts

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Formatting Frenzy

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

My Story Reflection

Kids explore the library for new texts with this reading worksheet.

Library Exploration

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

Choose the Best Ending

Your students will love learning about nonfiction texts and the life cycle of a seed with a classic story, simple video, and a cut and paste activity!


Plant Life Cycle: Pumpkins!

Kids solve a monster mystery and practice beginning consonant sounds.

Monster Puzzle

In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?

How Pictures Can Help Us Read

Practice preschool skills with this printable worksheet, which will get your kid sorting household items.

Sorting Supper

Story sequencing is a fundamental reading comprehension skill that helps students better understand texts. In this lesson, your class will read "The Three Little Pigs" and identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

The Three Little Pigs: Story Sequencing

This lesson will help students understand multiple-meaning words through the use of artistic and theatrical representation! Use as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Multiple-Meaning Words

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