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This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

making diagrams

Making Diagrams

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

going on a nonfiction picture walk

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

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Nonfiction Comprehension: Context Clues & Text Features

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

draw a caption illustration

Draw a Caption Illustration

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

timeline the history of photography

Timeline: The History of Photography

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

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Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

Teach your students about picture walks as a strategy to understand the author's purpose in a fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text lesson.

using picture walks to examine purpose

Using Picture Walks to Examine Purpose

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

magnificent bears

Magnificent Bears!

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

all about nonfiction

All About Nonfiction

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

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Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Visuals

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

match and draw the story

Match and Draw the Story

What’s the deal with all of those text features? Use this handy lesson plan to help your second graders answer that very question. 

how many features

How Many Features?

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

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Making Inferences With Pictures

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

extended reading comprehension funding space exploration

Extended Reading Comprehension: Funding Space Exploration

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

poetry reflections reading log

Poetry Reflections Reading Log

Students will learn about three nonfiction text features: charts, graphs, and diagrams. They will analyze and interpret the information represented in these visual forms and discover how they aid in the comprehension of nonfiction texts. 

charts and graphs and diagrams oh my

Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

What do ostriches and penguins have in common? In this text, kids compare and contrast facts about these two kinds of flightless birds.

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Flightless Birds

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

understanding headers and subheaders

Understanding Headers and Subheaders

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;

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Informational Reading Comprehension: Discovering Kites

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

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Reading Strategies: Visualizing

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

dessert index search

Dessert Index Search

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

nonfiction feature match

Nonfiction Feature Match

Penguins are such interesting animals! Help your students practice identifying the main topic and key ideas in a nonfiction text using this fun penguin-themed lesson plan.

interesting animals penguins

Interesting Animals: Penguins

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

using context clues to understand word meanings

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

multimedia elements of fiction beginning to end

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.

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Read Between the Lines

Charts, graphs, and diagrams are complex text features for students to decipher. Use this lesson to familiarize students with these features. It can be taught on its own or before the lesson Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

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Introduction to Charts and Diagrams

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

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Table of Contents Clues

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

chameleon table of contents

Chameleon Table of Contents

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

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