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.

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

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

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.

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

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

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

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

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

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

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 this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.