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 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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing 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.

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

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

This activity will have your students reading short paragraphs to identify prepositional phrases, and then using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

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.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.