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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. 

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Text Feature Detective

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

be a text detective

Be a Text Detective

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

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Text Detective: Weird Animals

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.

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Working Together: Text and Text Features

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.

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Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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Text Feature Descriptions

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

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Understand Text Features

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

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Earthquakes: Text Features

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

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Where Are the Text Features?

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

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Text Features Evaluation

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

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Text Features Sort

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

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Previewing Using Text Features

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

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Exploring Text Features

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

nonfiction text features checklist

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

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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!

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Search for Nonfiction Text Features

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

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Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

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

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Starfish Text Features

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

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Glossary: Understand Text Features

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

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Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

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

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Glossary: Nonfiction Text Features

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

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.

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Add a New Text Feature

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

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Informational Text: Close Reading

Text features highlight important facts in sources of information. Help kids learn to identify these features with this silly newspaper article.

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Identify the Text Features

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

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Glossary: Searching for Text Features

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

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Vocabulary Cards: Text Features Evaluation

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

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Vocabulary Cards: Understand Text Features

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

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Glossary: Learning About Text Features

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

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