Nonfiction Text Features Anchor Charts Poster Scavenger Hunt Worksheets Passages

Are you looking to incorporate nonfiction text features, anchor charts, science, reading comprehension, and a seasonal themes into one lesson? Look no further...

This nonfiction text features resource includes:

→ 25 Reading Comprehension Worksheets (with Seasonal
Passages)

→ 20 Nonfiction Text Features Posters / Anchor Charts

→ A list of aligned TEKS and Common Core Standards

→ 3 Text Features Scavenger Hunts

1. 25 Text Features Worksheets ~ These nonfiction reading comprehension passages with questions are designed for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students. Students will learn about polar animals by labeling the text features and answering reading comprehension questions. Answer keys are included.

The original resource consisted of nonfiction text features passages for 7 polar animals (polar bear, emperor penguin, Arctic fox, narwhal, walrus, brown bear, and whale). Each passage also addresses climate change and its effects on the environment. I have recently updated this resources to include additional seasonal reading comprehension passages!

The features to be labeled include:

•Title

•Headings

•Graphs

•Key words

•Hyperlink

•Photographs & Illustrations

•Timeline

•Caption

•Label

•Map

•Bullets

•Sidebar

2. Text Features - This resource includes 20 anchor chart / posters (listed below) and 3 text feature scavenger hunt worksheets that can be used with any text! The first two list the text feature and asks students to list the page number they find it on & its purpose. The third lets the students name the feature they find along with its page number & purpose.

Poster included:

• Title Page

• Table of Contents

• Title

• Headings

• Graphs & Charts

• Icon

• Guide Words

• Key Words

• Hyperlink

• Photographs & Illustrations

• Timeline

• Diagram

• Caption

• Label

• Map

• Cutaway

• Bullets

• Sidebar

• Glossary

• Index

Related Standards:

Common Core

RI 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.

RI 2.7 Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.

RI 3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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

RI 3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

RI 4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

RI 4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

Text Features in the TEKS:

3.13 (D) use text features (e.g., bold print, captions, key words, italics) to locate information and make and verify predictions about contents of text
3.13 (A) follow and explain a set of written multi-step directions
3.13 (B) locate and use specific information in graphic features of text

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