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

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

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

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

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

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

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.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

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

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Students will read more about our very own American Loch Ness monster. Then, theyÃll cut out a picture of each and paste it in its correct spot in the map.

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

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.