Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

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

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

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

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.