2nd and 3rd Grade Nonfiction Text Features Resources

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

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

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

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

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

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!

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

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.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Little readers, practice alphabetizing with this fun activity! Kids can put these scrambled words in alphabetical order to create a complete sentence.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.