This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

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

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

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

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

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

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.

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.