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

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Earthquakes: Text Features

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

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Text Features Evaluation

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

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Text Features Sort

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

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

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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

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Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

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

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Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

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.

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Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

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Informational Text: Close Reading

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

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Vocabulary Cards: Text Features Evaluation

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.

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Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

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.

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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

Adaptations are often used to retell old stories in new mediums. However, not all adaptations are exactly like their originals. This lesson helps students understand how inclusions and omissions can change a story.

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Movies vs. Text

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

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

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Missing Voices: Nonfiction Perspectives

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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Part 1: Using Visual Clues to Make Inferences

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

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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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Movies and Main Ideas

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

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Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

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The Butterfly's Ball

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

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The Great Depression

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

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Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #1

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

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Can You Spot the Main Idea?

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

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Quotes as Evidence #3

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

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Simple Fiction Summary

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

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Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

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Cause and Effect: Structure

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

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