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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

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

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

Write a Detective Comic!

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

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

Know a good geometry detective? Challenge your student to use the formula for calculating the area of a triangle.

Geometry Detective: Area of a Triangle #3

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

Text Grammar

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

Earthquakes: 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.

Previewing Using Text Features

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

Exploring Text Features

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Search for Nonfiction Text Features

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Tennis: Nonfiction Text

Use this worksheet to identify different text features through a fun matching activity.

Find the Text Feature

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

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

Text Features Chart

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

Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

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

Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

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