Nonfiction Passages with Text Features - Ocean Animals - PDF & Digital

Teach nonfiction text features and learn about ocean animals and habitats with these ocean animal reading passages and comprehension questions! Each nonfiction activity will engage your students with fascinating facts about sea life including blue whales, flying fish, sea anemones, and more as they practice identifying and analyzing text features, main idea, author's purpose, and other nonfiction reading skills.

This resource includes the following digital versions:

• Google Slides (link in PDF)
• Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)

Each article includes a variety of common text features such as titles, subtitles, headings, pictures, captions, maps, footnotes, and more - and each one comes with a page of comprehension questions that go beyond identifying text features. Students will analyze why authors use subtitles, bold text, and footnotes; they will use headings to identify the main idea of different sections; and they will understand the importance of information in captions and graphs.

Here's what's included:

-5 original reading passages on the following topics:

"The Rarest Dolphin in the World" (Hector's dolphin)

"The Largest Predator in the Sea" (blue whale)

"The World's Coldest Animals" (Arctic Ocean)

"The Only Fish That Can Fly" (flying fish)

"The Loveliest Costume in the Sea" (sea anemone)

-1 text features "cheat sheet" that can be used for notes or whole-class review

-Answer keys

I hope your students enjoy learning fun facts about ocean animals while they practice nonfiction reading skills!

Answer keys are included for all worksheets.

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