Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

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.

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

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

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

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Guide your students towards understanding what it takes to be a reading detective! By identifying synonyms and looking up definitions, they’ll familiarize themselves with some key vocabulary.

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

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Put your detective skills to the test as you figure out the meaning of each decimal model in this fourth-grade worksheet!