5th - 7th Grade Common Core Text Features Resources

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

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

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

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.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

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

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

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

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

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.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.