RI.2.5 Common Core Activity
This RI.2.5 common core activity has 2nd-3rd Grade students use text features in a weather Hunt Book to find facts with eight task cards. A practice page and answer key are included.
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Description
Readers find facts faster when they know how to use the tools inside a nonfiction book. This RI.2.5 common core activity teaches 2nd and 3rd Grade students to use text features such as the table of contents, headings, bold words, captions, a glossary, an index, a website menu and icons to locate key facts quickly.
Students read a five-page Hunt Book called Weather Wonders, which includes a page from a kid-friendly weather website. Then they pick a Fact Finder task card, use the text feature the card names, find the fact, and write it on their recording sheet. A practice worksheet gives more work with a real index, and answer keys make checking quick.
What’s Included
- A How to Use page with steps and an extension idea
- A 5-page Hunt Book: contents, headings, bold words, captions, glossary, index and a website page with a menu and weather icons
- 8 Fact Finder task cards
- A Fact Finder recording sheet
- A 2nd Grade practice worksheet: use an index to find page numbers
- Answer keys for the task cards and the practice worksheet
Why Kids Love It
- The task cards turn reading for information into a fact-finding hunt.
- Every answer is really in the book, so students feel like successful detectives.
- The website page shows that text features help online too, not just in books.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use this 2nd grade text features activity in a reading center, with a small group, or as partner work. Model one task card aloud first, showing how you skim the index or the headings instead of reading every word. Afterward, send students on a scavenger hunt through a library book and ask them to write their own task card for a friend. At home, families can use the RI.2.5 common core activity questions as a model and try the same kinds of questions with any nonfiction book or a kids’ website.
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