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This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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

Earthquakes: Text Features

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

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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

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

Glossary: Making Text Connections

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.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Text Connections

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Nonfiction Text Structures #3: Description

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

Missing Voices: Nonfiction Perspectives

In the worksheet, The Veteran Cathay Williams: Differentiated Text, learners will read about a female veteran who helped pave the way for females to serve in the military. Cathay Williams was the only woman Buffalo Soldier. For a more challenging text, ch

The Veteran Cathay Williams: Differentiated Text

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

Quotes as Evidence #3

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Make a Travel Brochure for Mexico City

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Make a Travel Brochure for Vancouver

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Nonfiction Text Structures #2: Cause and Effect

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

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.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Nonfiction Text Structures #1: Compare and Contrast

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Part 1: Using Visual Clues to Make Inferences

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Making Inferences About Feelings

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

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