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.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

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.

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

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: Making Text Connections.

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

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

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

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

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

This activity will have your students reading short paragraphs to identify prepositional phrases, and then using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.