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.

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

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.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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

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

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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