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Get your magnifying glasses&mdash;it&rsquo;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

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

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

Text Message Language

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

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

Fact Detective

Text features highlight important facts in sources of information. Help kids learn to identify these features with this silly newspaper article.

Identify the Text Features

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

Dictionary Detective

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

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

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

Gaining Information from the Text and its Features

Jazz up your nonfiction reading and add a little color! Use this lesson with your students to teach them to cite text evidence as they answer questions by color coding. 

Color Coding Nonfiction 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?

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Nonfiction Text Features: Wild, Wild Weather

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Text Features for Comprehension

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonfiction Text Features: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

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

Use comparative and superlative clues to find out who stole the birthday cake.

Birthday Cake Detective

Put your detective-in-training on the case with this secret-message activity.

Crack the Code #2

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.

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