This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

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 resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

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.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

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

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

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.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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

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.

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

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

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

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

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.