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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. 

Text Feature Detective

Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn! 

Be a Nonfiction Detective!

Time to have your students don their detective hats and magnifying glass as they assume the role of word detective! This fun worksheet will help your first graders learn sight words by recognizing them in classroom books.

Word Detective

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

Keep outer-space crime under control with an alien detective! Your stellar sleuth will love coloring in this fun picture full of alien robots.

Alien Detective Coloring Page

Have your kids put on their detective hats to solve the case of the missing letters! Students are encouraged to slow down and listen to each sound they hear. By working as word detectives, students learn how to segment words into different sounds.

Word Detective: Fruits

Put on your detective hats because it's time for a measurement hunt! In this activity, students search for objects around the classroom that are shorter/longer than the given items. Your kids will have fun hunting for items and drawing what they find.

Classroom Measurement Detective

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing Text Features

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Searching for Text Features

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features. 

Using Text Features

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

Where Are the Text Features?

Use this worksheet to identify different text features through a fun matching activity.

Use this blank chart to capture student thinking as you explore different text features found in nonfiction books.

Text Features Chart

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

Text Features Scavenger Hunt

This worksheet teaches first graders all about common text features of nonfiction writing.

Nonfiction Text Feature Match

You can use this set of cards to test your student's knowledge of text features

Text Features Matching Cards

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.

Reading Report: Text-to-Text Connections

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.

Add a New Text Feature

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

Glossary: Searching for Text Features

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

Informational Writing with Text Features

This handy chart helps first graders find text features in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Hunt for Nonfiction Text Features

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

Vocabulary Cards: Searching for Text Features

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

What's in a Text Feature?

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.

Word Detective: Pets

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!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

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

Shortnose Sawshark

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Oobleck Science: Solid or Liquid? 

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

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.

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