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Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

Use this worksheet to identify different text features through a fun matching activity.

Use this blank chart to capture student thinking as you explore different text features found in nonfiction books.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this helpful and informative matching worksheet.

This worksheet teaches first graders all about common text features of nonfiction writing.

You can use this set of cards to test your student's knowledge of text features

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Use this handy worksheet to help students practice identifying the parts of a fiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

This handy chart helps first graders find text features in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

After writing a draft of an informational piece, have students edit their writing with this handy checklist. Students will check their writing for correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, as well as an accurate table of contents.