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Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

What's in a Text Feature?

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing 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

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

Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn! 

Be a Nonfiction Detective!

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features. 

Using Text Features

Learning from others is a huge part of getting better at something, including writing! In this lesson, students will study works by nonfiction authors to enhance their own nonfiction writing.

Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing

Young detectives will have a blast as they find context clues and solve a mystery in this fun-filled lesson plan. By paying close attention to a story, students will figure out missing letters to decipher a hidden message.

Context Clue Detectives

Share the pen in this lesson on text features as you work together as a class to create a nonfiction big book. This lesson can be used alone or with the Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing lesson plan.

Create a Nonfiction Big Book

Your students will be mesmerized with models after this engaging and hands on lesson that gets students up and moving as they explore their community!

Make a Model of Your Community

Show your students how long one minute is. Use a story and activities to help them gain a better understanding of time.

How Long is One Minute?

It's rhyme time! Students will color-code rhyming words and put each one in its “word family house” with this fun rhyming mini book and fill in the "stair steps" writing activity page.



Rhyming Word Family Fun Houses

From the compass rose to the map key, first grade students will learn about three characteristics that make up a map.  Symbols are used on maps too, as students practice what they can do!

Learning About Maps

Students will use paper to create eye-popping texture and form with these self-portraits.

Paper Self-Portraits

Have your students get energized while they learn about animal locomotion and move around like various animals!


Move Like an Animal!

Using charts is a great way to see similarities, differences, and information. This visual lesson will help all students see what can be gained from nonfiction and fiction texts.

Knowledge Charting

Use Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" to inspire a fun watercolor resist painting with your students!


Watercolor Wave

Mindfulness 101! Students focus on the present moment using their senses to observe what is happening right now. They are introduced to the idea that mindfulness is about paying attention to the present. 

Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.

Learning About Words: The Sounds of -ed

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Searching for Text Features

In this lesson, your students will use the background knowledge that they have about counting and sorting to graph data. They will practice answering questions about the graph!

Graphing Colored Counters

Engage students in counting through fun "I Spy" activities! Students gain fluency counting and recording numbers to 30. 

I Spy Counting Practice

Your students will hone their creative writing skills as they design their own fictional characters. Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details and descriptive language during the prewriting phase of storytelling.

Writing: Create a Character

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


Christmas Adventure Writing

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction

Make math fun with this lesson that has students work together to solve subtraction sentences. Students will also get a chance to practice their skills individually with a worksheet.

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