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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.

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!

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.

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.

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