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Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Earthquakes: 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.

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Glossary: Making Text Connections

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Making Predictions with Text Evidence

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Text Connections

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

In the worksheet, The Veteran Cathay Williams: Differentiated Text, learners will read about a female veteran who helped pave the way for females to serve in the military. Cathay Williams was the only woman Buffalo Soldier. For a more challenging text, ch

The Veteran Cathay Williams: Differentiated Text

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

Vocabulary Cards: Prove It With Text Evidence

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

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

George Washington, a Man of Firsts

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.

Text-Based Fact or Opinion

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.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text:  Fidget Spinners

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

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in 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.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

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.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Nonfiction Text Structures #2: Cause and Effect

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Nonfiction Text Structures #3: Description

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Color Coding Nonfiction Text: Bears

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Close Reading: Questions & Answers

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Coding Nonfiction Text: The History of Crayons

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Nonfiction Text Structures #1: Compare and Contrast

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Question Web

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

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