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Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

Informational Text: Close Reading

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Taking Notes With Informational Texts: Key Vocabulary

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Working Together: Text and Text Features

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

Text Features Evaluation

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Dorothea Dix

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Earthquakes: Text Features

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Reading Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams From Nonfiction Texts

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Text Features Sort

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information. 

Text Feature Detective

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Exploring Text Features

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites&nbsp;and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills.&nbsp;

Informational Reading Comprehension: Discovering Kites

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

This fun combination of scavenger hunt and bingo is sure to please young learners. Not only will your students increase their knowledge of text features, they'll also enjoy a selection of engaging games.

Searching for Text Features

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Starfish Text Features

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Glossary: Making Text Connections

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Glossary: Understand Text Features

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this helpful and informative matching worksheet.

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