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Get your magnifying glasses—it’s time to play text detective. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of reading comprehension and making inferences while learning to correctly label the 5 Ws within a text.

Informational Text: Citing Evidence Like a Detective

Use this worksheet to give children a challenge as they use context clues and their detective skills to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Be a Word Detective

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Write a Detective Comic!

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.

Working Together: Text and Text Features

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

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.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Text Grammar

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

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

Earthquakes: Text Features

Turn text messages full of abbreviated language and lacking punctuation into proper English.

Text Message Language

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

Text Features Evaluation

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Text Features Sort

This lesson helps your ELs identify nonfiction text features and explain how they enhance comprehension of the text. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Searching for Text Features lesson plan.

Text Features and Their Purposes

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

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

Use this lesson to help your ELs use information from text features to better understand the text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense lesson.

Using Text Features for Comprehension

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

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

Starfish Text Features

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

Glossary: Making Text Connections

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

Glossary: Understand Text Features

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

Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Fix the Text Grammar

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Dictionary Detective

Don't be daunted by this division challenge. Dividing by 1 and 2 digit numbers will help your student discover buried treasure and conquer an important 5th grade math skill in the process.

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