Nonfiction Informational Text Structures Features Summarizing Activities Bundle

⭐️Can't decide between the ✨Best-Selling Informational Text Breakdown✨ or my new Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown... Snag the bundle & save BIG. These nonfiction graphic organizers, & activities work w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage. Students love the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt, Text Structure Sort & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet.

• Click Here for my ✨FREE✨ Nonfiction Text Feature Anchor Chart

Everything you need to teach Identifying text structure, text features, main idea, authors purpose...etc in nonfiction passages in a fun & engaging way! Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research breakdown, nonfiction book reports...etc!

This download includes both the PDF print & (editable) digital | google slide versions. PDF Version works as EASLE activity or assessment. Each slide is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned ELA concepts. #NOFLUFF

• Looking for fun & engaging activities for nonfiction text structures | informational texts that's age-appropriate for your upper-grades? (Upper-Elementary - Middle School, Secondary)

• Do your students struggle with reading comprehension when it comes to nonfiction passages or informational texts?

This Nonfiction Bundle is just what you need!

***Use again & again & again

• Magazine articles (Time for Kids, National Geographic, Scholastic News...)
• Websites (Newsela, Read Theory, Common Lit, Read Works...etc
• Brochures (I have students bring back brochures from their trips!)
• Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages
• ...etc

Whats Included:

Informational Text Breakdown

✏️ These Informational Text Summary Activities are ALL on a single page:

Pre-Read Section:

• Prediction
• Activate Schema
• Ask a Question

Reading Response Section:

• Main Idea
• Supporting details | evidence
• Author's Purpose | text evidence
• Reflection
• Connection to text
• Questions I still have
• Vocabulary

Text Feature Scavenger Hunt Section

Author Information | Boldface Words | Bullet Points | Picture Captions | Graph Chart Diagram | Contact Information | Drawing Fact | Opinion | Italicized Words | Glossary Heading | Index | List | Map | Subheading | Subtitle | Photographs | Questions | Answers | Table of Contents | Title | Timeline | Pronunciation Guide

✏️ Editable Nonfiction Roll & Respond Extension: After reading the article students can dive in deeper to the text with one of these fun activity suggestions! Students decide which response activity they will complete by rolling a dice.

• Valuable Vocabulary
• Favorite Facts
• Text Feature... Feature
• From the Editor
• Illustrated Infographic
• Quiz Me

Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown:

• Digital & PDF Versions Included
• Text Structure Breakdown *Use again, and again, and AGAIN
• Nonfiction Text Structure Sort *Digital & Printable
• Editable Graphic Organizers
• 30+ Editable pages in Google Slides
• Links to my favorite FREE videos, passages, quizzes, and picture book

✏️ Description Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Sequence / Chronological Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Cause and Effect Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Compare and Contrast Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Problem and Solution Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown

• Digital and Printable Version
• Editable
• Use with ANY nonfiction passage, students work through graphic organizer to determine the text structure.

✏️ Nonfiction Text Structure Sort

• Digital and Printable Version
• Editable
• Great for nonfiction center / rotation activity, as a pre-assessment and post-assessment.

✏️ Extension Activities

• Complete Text Structure Graphic Organizers using details from the nonfiction passage
• Links to my favorite FREE text structure quizzes
• Links to my favorite sources for FREE nonfiction text structure passages
  

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SEE WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING… Recommended for 4th - 8th Grades

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love using the graphic organizer to reinforce how important text features are to gather information about the passage. IT is a great tool to use over & over. Many times I pair this with Scholastic articles for a sub assignment. - 5th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love that I can use this resource with any informational text! it is super detailed and really worked well as an independent activity! I can't wait to try using it as a whole group! - 6th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I use this weekly with my AIS kids to examine articles from NewsELA. It really forces them to look carefully at the text and the text structures. - 7th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This resource has worked well with my students to support them in understanding informative text and using informative texts for research purposes without plagiarizing the text. A great reference tool! - 9th, 10th, 11th Grade

• Click Here to Read the Blog Post for More Information and Ideas on FUN & EFFECTIVE ways for Teaching Informational Text! (Freebies Included)

Looking for more Informational | Nonfiction Text Activities?

• Try this new Informational Text Response Choice Board: These two products make the perfect pair! Use these activities again and again with ANY TEXT :D

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