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.

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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

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.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

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

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.