Informational Nonfiction TEXT FEATURES Worksheet Posters Anchor Chart Assessment

Being able to use text features is essential for understanding informational text. This set of posters, worksheets, and assessment helps students identify, understand, and use text features they encounter when reading nonfiction passages.

WHAT YOU WILL GET

➡️ Text Features Posters/Anchor Charts

The posters include a definition along with an illustrated example. I created them as a visual support for my own class. They hang in my room all year where students refer to them often.

Includes the following text features:

• diagram
• table of contents
• heading
• boldface type (also provided as "Bold Print")
• map
• timeline
• glossary
• index
• caption
• graph
• bullet points
• sidebar
• illustration
• photograph
• italics
• title

✅ No color printing? No problem! These posters are provided in both full-color and black-and-white versions.

➡️ Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt

This worksheet gives students practice identifying and using text features found in a book.

➡️ Cut-and-Glue Worksheet

Requires students to glue the correct definition next to the corresponding text feature

➡️ Student Reference Sheet

This is a quick, one-page guide that explains what each text feature is; also doubles as an answer key for the cut-and-glue worksheet.

DIGITAL ACTIVITIES

This resource includes digital activities that can be used with TpT's Easel feature.

• Definition/picture match with moveable pieces and self-checking answers.
• Scavenger hunt worksheet with answer boxes that students can type in.
• Self-grading assessment

These activities can be assigned in your online learning platform (LMS) for students to complete on any device. The reading response worksheet has already been prepared for use in Easel with answer boxes for students to type into.

✅ Check out the PREVIEW to see what's included!

HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE

The posters can be left whole and hung up bin your room for students to refer to throughout the year. They can also be cut apart into two separate pieces (example and definition) to use as a matching activity.

Instructions are included for printing the posters as smaller hand-held cards. You can use them during centers (matching game), as a student-pairing activity (find your text feature partner), or to place inside student folders for reference.

The reading response worksheet is best used as a practice activity during independent reading or centers. The cut-and-glue worksheet can be used for practice or as an assessment piece.

WHAT OTHER TEACHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:

❤️ Jan said, "Students loved them. They took the iPods, found the images in the nonfiction materials they were using, took a picture of the specific item, put the images together and made a classroom chart. Excellent.

❤️ Melissa said, "I laminated these and used them as a literacy center where students matched them. I also used them along with a Scholastic News and had students complete a Scavenger Hunt for text features. Great resource."

STANDARDS SUPPORTED BY THIS RESOURCE:

CCSSRI.1.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

CCSSRI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

CCSSRI.3.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

By learning how to use text features, kids can more easily identify key ideas, make connections between different parts of the text, and extract relevant information. They help students navigate through a text more effectively and also become better writers. Learning how to use headings, subheadings, and other text features to organize their writing make it more readable and accessible to their audience.

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