Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Complete this Hanukkah story by selecting the correct pictures instead of words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

A screenplay tells the actors what to say, the camera how to move, and much more. These worksheets bring the movie onto the page for your young film buff.

Students will read more about our very own American Loch Ness monster. Then, theyÃll cut out a picture of each and paste it in its correct spot in the map.

This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

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

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

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Captions for Illustrations.