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Now that reading skills are more developed, second graders will move on to comprehension of informational text. This guided lesson supports this through an exploration of the main idea of a text, as well as the other text features, such as: captions, photographs, maps headings, subheadings, glossary, index, icons and graphs. Kids will look at two texts that cover the same topic, but in different ways.

Informational Text 1

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

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

Text Features Scavenger Hunt

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.

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

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

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

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

Earthquakes: Text Features

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

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

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

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: 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.

Searching for Text Features

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.

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

Glossary: Nonfiction Text Features

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Add a New Text Feature

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Previewing Using Text Features

Text features highlight important facts in sources of information. Help kids learn to identify these features with this silly newspaper article.

Identify the Text Features

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

Parts of a Fiction Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Glossary: Searching for Text Features

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