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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.

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.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: 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.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of 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.

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.

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

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.

Find the mysterious missing numbers in this engaging division worksheet!

Can you guess the job? Put your detective skills to the test in this fun worksheet for second and third graders!

Get ready to use your best detective skills in this mystery-filled word activity for second and third graders!

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Learners will help the detectives complete their crime report and solve a curious case by adding the missing descriptive adjectives!