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

searching for text features

Searching for Text Features

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

parts of a fiction text

Parts of a Fiction Text

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.

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Word Detective: Pets

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

glossary making connections in a fiction text

Glossary: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

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

hunting for nonfiction text features in pictures

Hunting for Nonfiction Text Features in Pictures

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

vocabulary cards making connections in a fiction text

Vocabulary Cards: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Kids play detective and practice phonics in this engaging silent e game.

spot the silent e words camping

Spot the Silent E Words: Camping

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

what are you reading

What Are You Reading?

Students will enjoy this fast-paced lesson as they incorporate acting, reading, and detective work while learning how to use context clues in fiction.

is it the same

Is It the Same?

Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to review or teach all about retelling a story with your ELs. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Goldilocks and the Beginning, Middle, and End.

making connections in a fiction text

Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!

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Detail Detectives

Learning about text features, such as Table of Contents, is an important part of learning how to read.

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Table of Contents - Cat Care

Use this lesson plan as a stand alone or support lesson to introduce or review nonfiction text features to your ELs.

all about nonfiction

All About Nonfiction

Students learn to observe small details in text through repetition and the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built."

the house that jack built

The House that Jack Built

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

match and draw the story

Match and Draw the Story

Look at the colorful illustrations and decide which text best describes the image!

choose the caption

Choose the Caption

Penguins are such interesting animals! Help your students practice identifying the main topic and key ideas in a nonfiction text using this fun penguin-themed lesson plan.

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Interesting Animals: Penguins

In this lesson, students will identify new vocabulary words from a text read aloud. After selecting new words, they will create their own picture dictionaries to learn the meaning of each new word. 

 
 
 				


learning new vocabulary

Learning New Vocabulary

ELs will get a chance to practice their listening and reading comprehension skills as they answer questions about the key details in a read-aloud text. Use as a stand-alone or pre-lesson for the Questions for Comprehension lesson plan.

finding the details and asking for answers

Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

Use this lesson plan to introduce, preview, or review the concept of sharing an opinion using a hilarious read aloud text! This can be used as a standalone lesson or with the lesson The Little Red Hen Story Patterns.

sharing opinions about stories

Sharing Opinions About Stories

In this fun forest animal inspired lesson plan, students will learn all about the forest using a nonfiction text before creating their very own forest animal page!

who lives in the forest

Who Lives in the Forest?

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

talk about texts

Talk About Texts

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

my story reflection

My Story Reflection

Kids explore the library for new texts with this reading worksheet.

library exploration

Library Exploration

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Kids solve a monster mystery and practice beginning consonant sounds.

monster puzzle

Monster Puzzle

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

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Missing the Main Topic: Dogs

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun horse-themed worksheet.

missing the main topic horses

Missing the Main Topic: Horses

In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?

how pictures can help us read

How Pictures Can Help Us Read

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun sea turtle-themed worksheet.

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