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.

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

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

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 exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

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: Prove It With Text Evidence.

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

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

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!

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

These pets need your help finding their missing letters! This worksheet encourages students to slow down and listen to each sound they hear. By working as word detectives, students learn how to segment pet words into different sounds.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Fans of the weird will love this coloring page of the shortnose sawshark, an odd looking creature to say the least.

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Fluent readers know how to tackle tricky words. Help young readers build their reading muscles by practicing identifying and decoding challenging words with this worksheet.

Do dogs bark, flap, or swing? Pair animals with relevant verbs in this first- and second-grade worksheet!