5th - 8th Grade Text Features Worksheets

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn all about The Mayflower, the famous ship the Pilgrims made their great journey in.

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Dig deep into the geography of Chile while practicing important informational reading comprehension skills with this middle school worksheet!

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

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

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

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.

Children learn about three songs that inspired and gave hope to the people who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad, then answer questions about what they have learned.

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

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

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

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

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

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

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.

Ever wonder why we wear green on St. Patrick's day, or where the leprechaun came from? Find out with this worksheet on St. Patty's Day history!

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.

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.

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!

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!