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2nd Grade Text Features Resources : Page 2

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Visualize and Summarize

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Make Your Own Fairy Tale

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Make a Mental Picture

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

Glossary: Nonfiction Text Features

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Vocabulary Partner Talk

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

Ozark Big-Eared Bat Coloring Page

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

Vocabulary Cards: Learning About Text Features

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Vocabulary Think & Seek

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Table of Contents Clues

Both of these animals have big ears! Your child will look at the pictures of unusual animals in this worksheet and try to learn some new things about them.

Pictures Have a Lot to Say: Big Ears

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Table of Contents Treasure Hunt

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Pictures Have a Lot to Say

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Chameleon Table of Contents

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

Previewing Using Text Features

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

Vocabulary Cards: Nonfiction Text Features

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

Glossary: Learning About Text Features

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Fairy Tale Rebus

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Dessert Index Search

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

Glossary: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Deborah Sampson

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Scene Illustration

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Understanding Headers and Subheaders

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

Vocabulary Cards: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

What’s the deal with all of those text features? Use this handy lesson plan to help your second graders answer that very question. 

How Many Features?

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Teach your students about picture walks as a strategy to understand the author's purpose in a fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text lesson.

Using Picture Walks to Examine Purpose

What do ostriches and penguins have in common? In this text, kids compare and contrast facts about these two kinds of flightless birds.

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