Time to have your students don their detective hats and magnifying glass as they assume the role of word detective! This fun worksheet will help your first graders learn sight words by recognizing them in classroom books.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Have your kids put on their detective hats to solve the case of the missing letters! Students are encouraged to slow down and listen to each sound they hear. By working as word detectives, students learn how to segment words into different sounds.

Put on your detective hats because it's time for a measurement hunt! In this activity, students search for objects around the classroom that are shorter/longer than the given items. Your kids will have fun hunting for items and drawing what they find.

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

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

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction 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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a dictionary’s guide words to correctly locate a word.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.