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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

Informational Writing with Text Features

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features. 

Using Text Features

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing Text Features

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

Text Features Scavenger Hunt

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 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

Get your magnifying glasses&mdash;it&rsquo;s time to play text detective. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of reading comprehension and making inferences while learning to correctly label the 5 Ws within a text.

Informational Text: Citing Evidence Like a Detective

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

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

Informational Indentations

In this lesson, students will read text features and discuss how each text feature relates to the main idea of a nonfiction text. Use a stand alone activity or a support for the Examining the Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Learning About Text Features

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Searching for Text Features

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Turn text messages full of abbreviated language and lacking punctuation into proper English.

Text Message Language

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

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

Use this lesson to help your ELs use information from text features to better understand the text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense lesson.

Using Text Features for Comprehension

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

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

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

Text Features Chart

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

Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

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 Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Glossary: Nonfiction Text Features

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Summarize a Nonfiction Text

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

Nonfiction Text Feature Match

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

Text Features Matching Cards

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.

Reading Report: Text-to-Text Connections

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

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