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Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Text features highlight important facts in sources of information. Help kids learn to identify these features with this silly newspaper article.

Identify the Text Features

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information. 

Text Feature Detective

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

What’s the deal with all of those text features? Use this handy lesson plan to help your second graders answer that very question. 

How Many Features?

Use this lesson to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. This can be used as a stand alone activity or a support the Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings lesson.

Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Teach your students about picture walks as a strategy to understand the author's purpose in a fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text lesson.

Using Picture Walks to Examine Purpose

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

What do ostriches and penguins have in common? In this text, kids compare and contrast facts about these two kinds of flightless birds.

Flightless Birds

When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.

Read Between the Lines

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

In this series of maps, charts and match-ups your child will learn to use his logic to read contextual clues and label the information. Every picture has a story to tell!

Drawing Conclusions

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

Arrr you ready for a treasure hunt story? These pirates have gotten their story all jumbled! Help them put it back in order.

Treasure Hunt Story

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Biome Beth

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Gaining Information from the Text and its Features

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to  pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

English Pronunciation

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Dictionary Skills: Alphabetizing Guide Words

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

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Answering Questions About Wild, Wild Weather

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Illustration Explanation

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Magnificent Bears!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Glossary: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Glossary: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

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