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

Dig deeper into informational texts with this graphic organizer for fourth and fifth graders!

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

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.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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.

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 signal words to identify text structure in this fourth- and fifth-grade worksheet!

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: Making Text Connections.

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

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 nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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.