Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

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.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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

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

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

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.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

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.

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

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.

Help your preschooler understand there are different types of text to be read in books, and practice some handwriting on some big words.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.