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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.

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.

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.

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 worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

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

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

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

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

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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.

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

Learning the difference between facts and opinions is a valuable life skill and a powerful mindfulness practice. This worksheet asks children and caregivers to assume the role of fact detectives as they orchestrate a facts and opinions scavenger hunt in t

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

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

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.

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

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

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