Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

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

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

Use this worksheet to identify different text features through a fun matching activity.

Use this blank chart to capture student thinking as you explore different text features found in nonfiction books.

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

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

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

This worksheet teaches first graders all about common text features of nonfiction writing.

You can use this set of cards to test your student's knowledge of text features

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

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.

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

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

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

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

This handy chart helps first graders find text features in the nonfiction books they are reading.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

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

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.