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

Learning the difference between facts and opinions is a valuable life skill and a powerful mindfulness practice. This worksheet asks children and caregivers to assume the role of fact detectives as they orchestrate a facts and opinions scavenger hunt in t

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

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

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

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

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!

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

If your kindergartener can detect the letter D, he can get the bottom of this puzzle and end up with a D-lightful drawing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

These pets need your help finding their missing letters! This worksheet encourages students to slow down and listen to each sound they hear. By working as word detectives, students learn how to segment pet words into different sounds.

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.

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.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Fans of the weird will love this coloring page of the shortnose sawshark, an odd looking creature to say the least.