This Nonfiction Text Features Worksheet helps 2nd graders match key text features and use a Table of Contents and Index to find information. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep reading practice.
The Locating Nonfiction Text Features Worksheet asks 3rd Grade readers to name six features cut from one nonfiction page about honey bees, then explain one choice. Answer key included for fast, confident nonfiction reading.
With this picture matching sentences worksheet, first graders read six short sentences and label the picture each one describes. Answer key included, so checking work takes seconds.
This Using Picture Clues Worksheet gives first graders four illustrated sentences and asks them to figure out what each bold word means. An answer key is included, so it is ready for quick, no-prep reading practice.
This Using Non-Fiction Text Features Worksheet helps 2nd graders spot the title, subheadings, captions, bold words, and glossary on a real nonfiction page. Answer key included for quick, no-prep reading practice.
The Parts of a Book Worksheet helps Kindergarten readers name the front cover, back cover, and pages, then trace each word. Includes an answer key — a fun, no-prep way to build early print concepts.
This Identifying Unknown Words Worksheet gives 2nd graders four illustrated passages and asks them to use context clues to choose what each underlined word means. Answer key included for fast, confident vocabulary practice.
This Book Parts Worksheet helps 2nd graders identify the title, table of contents, glossary, and index, and where to find each part of a book. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep reading practice.
Use this understanding meaning worksheet to help 2nd graders learn new words with context clues from a short text about the desert cactus. An answer key is included for quick checking.
Children put wordless picture cards in order and tell the story in this pictures tell stories sequencing activity for preschool to 1st grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This Using Text or Pictures to Find Information Worksheet asks 2nd graders to decide whether each fact came from the words or the picture. An answer key is included, so nonfiction practice takes no prep.
A Florida FAST 3rd grade reading practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 13 benchmarks, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This science graphic organizer worksheet helps 3rd graders take notes on any nonfiction science book, from main idea and author’s purpose to key science words and three important facts. A reusable page that turns reading into real understanding.
This Using Pictures as Context Clues Worksheet helps 1st Grade readers use an illustration and the words around a new word to find its meaning, with five questions and an answer key included.
A Florida FAST 4th grade reading practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 13 benchmarks, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
The Understanding Meaning The Venus Fly Trap Worksheet gives 1st graders a short non-fiction passage and five context clue questions. An answer key is included, so students can check their thinking and point to the sentence that proves it.
A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This Identifying Unknown Words in a Text Worksheet gives 1st Grade readers a soccer passage and five context clue questions, with an answer key included, so they learn to work out new words from the sentences around them.
A NJSLA-A 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 19 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This informational text vocabulary worksheet gives 2nd grade students a short passage about how a seed grows, four bubble questions and one written response. An answer key is included.
Headings, captions and the clues in between
Text features are the tools authors add to help readers find and understand information. Little readers start with the parts of a book: the cover, the title, the author and illustrator. Then they learn nonfiction features like headings, captions, bold words, labels, diagrams, a table of contents and a glossary. By 3rd grade, kids use these features to find facts fast and explain how a diagram or caption adds to what the words say. The click is when a child flips straight to the index instead of reading the whole book to find one fact!
Kids learn text features best by using them on real pages. Here's how.
Show a nonfiction page and have kids point to each feature: heading, photo, caption, bold word. Then they label them on the nonfiction text features worksheet. Ask "What does this caption tell us that the picture doesn't?"
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withNonfiction Text Features WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →After the book parts worksheet, kids fold paper into a mini book with a cover, title, author and illustrator name. Making each part themselves helps them remember what it's for.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withBook Parts WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Hand out a nonfiction page and call out quick challenges: "Find a bold word! Find the heading about food!" Kids race to locate each one. It's a fast check on who can really use the features.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withLocating Nonfiction Text Features WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Text features are perfect for hunting games.
WorksheetsKids read about the Venus fly trap and use the text and pictures to figure out what new words mean.
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WorksheetsKids look closely at an illustration and use it to answer questions about the story.
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WorksheetsKids find tricky vocabulary in an informational text and write their own kid-friendly glossary.
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Text features are parts of a text that help readers find and understand information, like headings, captions, bold words, diagrams, maps, a table of contents and a glossary. They are most common in nonfiction.
Kindergarten and 1st grade learn the parts of a book. Nonfiction text features are a big focus in 1st through 3rd grade, and upper grades explain how features support the text.
They help readers find information quickly and understand ideas that are hard to explain in words alone, like a diagram of a plant's parts.
Grab a nonfiction book or magazine and go on a hunt together. Ask your child to find the table of contents, a caption and a bold word, and tell you what each one is for.
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