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Kindergarten students will become text feature detectives as they hunt for the different text features found in nonfiction books in this fun reading lesson.

Are You a Text Detective?

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information. 

Text Feature Detective

Get your magnifying glasses&mdash;it&rsquo;s time to play text detective. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of reading comprehension and making inferences while learning to correctly label the 5 Ws within a text.

Informational Text: Citing Evidence Like a Detective

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn! 

Be a Nonfiction Detective!

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.

Word Detective

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

Use this worksheet to give children a challenge as they use context clues and their detective skills to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Be a Word Detective

Keep outer-space crime under control with an alien detective! Your stellar sleuth will love coloring in this fun picture full of alien robots.

Alien Detective Coloring Page

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.

Word Detective: Fruits

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Become a Word Detective!

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Working Together: Text and Text Features

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.

Classroom Measurement Detective

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing Text Features

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

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

Searching for Text Features

In this lesson, students will read text features and discuss how each text feature relates to the main idea of a nonfiction text. Use a stand alone activity or a support for the Examining the Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Learning About Text Features

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

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

Earthquakes: Text Features

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features. 

Using Text Features

Turn text messages full of abbreviated language and lacking punctuation into proper English.

Text Message Language

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

Text Features Sort

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

Where Are the Text Features?

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

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