3rd - 5th Grade Text Features Resources : Page 3

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

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.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

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

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 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.

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.

If the zombie outbreak happens, will you be prepared? Help your child familiarize with disaster preparedness through the lens of a zompocalypse!

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

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.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

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

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

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

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

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

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: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

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

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

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

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