Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Summarizing Informational Text Graphic

✨BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. 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! Includes print & digital versions.

• Looking for a fun & engaging activities for nonfiction text | 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 best-selling Informational Text Breakdown & Nonfiction Reading Response is just the thing!

***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

This nonfiction graphic organizer has been updated to include both the PDF print & (editable) digital | google slide versions. PDF Version works as EASLE activity or assessment. Each response page is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned ELA concepts. #NOFLUFF

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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

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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

Both of these tools are intended to be used again, and again, and again! I like to model the activity as a whole class, then allow students to work independently.

Teachers have suggested using these with Time for Kids or Scholastic News in reading centers or rotations. Others have left them as a meaningful and effective activity to be completed with a substitute or in their emergency substitute plans.

SEE WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING… Recommended for 4th - 10th 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

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