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

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.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

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.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

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.

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

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!

This activity will have your students reading short paragraphs to identify prepositional phrases, and then using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

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

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.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

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

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!

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 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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.