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For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

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

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

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

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

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

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: Text Features Evaluation.

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

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.

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

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

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

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.

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.

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.