Teaching nonfiction text features

Looking for ways to motivate your students to read? I always find that using nonfiction gets my students interested and ready to participate. That's why I created these five nonfiction articles free for your classroom! Graphic organizer also included. Read my blog post for how to work these articles into your day and find out how to grab these free articles!

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I don't know about you, but whenever it comes to teaching Nonfiction Text Features it seems like my teacher's toolkit is low on ideas, resources, and

This blog post details lessons and ideas for teaching nonfiction text features, with activities that incorporate the fall season. Your elementary students will love these fall-themed reading passages and activities while they learn how to find text features in informational texts.

This FREE nonfiction text features scavenger hunt is such a fun, hands on, and authentic activity for students to see nonfiction text features in real informational texts or nonfiction reading passages!

Nonfiction Text Features Chart {FREE} - This Reading Mama

Nakayla | ⋒ 2nd Grade Teacher’s Instagram post: “Nonfiction Text Features! 🌟 Today we spent some time reviewing text features. It is not only important for them to identify them, but…”

Some readers can read with such beautiful expression and accuracy. It is absolutely breath-taking! But as the reader is asked questions about the text, he replies with, “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember”. Many times when readers struggle to answer questions, they are simply lacking some comprehension strategies needed to help them think about ... Read More about Comprehension Strategies: Reading Equals Thinking

The games can be used with any non-fiction book.

Use this free text features slideshow to teach your 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade students about 18 different text features. The slideshow gives the name of the text feature, a definition, and a visual example to help your students better understand the purpose of text features. Includes nonfiction text features like headings, table of contents, labels, captions, and more - great for an upper elementary classroom lesson.

Teach text structures with this FREE sorting activity that features 8 nonfiction passages! Ideal text structure lesson for the upper elementary classroom that includes an anchor chart!

Here are some tips and tricks for teaching text features in non fiction to your students!

Children's magazines are a great source of informational text because the articles are short, interesting, and they include a variety of text structures and features. This post from Laura Candler includes tips for selecting appropriate magazines as well as strategies for using them to teach nonfiction reading comprehension. #informationaltext #readingcomprehension #nonfictionreading #readinglessons

Non-fiction Text Features

Have fun comparing Fiction and Nonfiction texts in the classroom with these easy to prepare ideas! If so, we have a few activities you can try out to help your kiddos see the similarities and differences between the two types of text. Class Discussion + Anchor Chart Select 2 books on one topic. As a class, take a picture walk through both books. Decide which is fiction and which is nonfiction. Have your kiddos help you make post it notes to label their reasons. You could also divide into…

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Informational Text Structures Notebook Entry.

Teach text structures with this nonfiction text structure anchor chart and FREE sorting activity! Ideal lesson for the upper elementary classroom that includes 8 free passages!

Looking for a new way to explore text features and non-fiction subjects? Give students a chance to direct their own learning with this little project-based freebie! Students love this not-so-traditional non-fiction book report that asks them to hunt through a book or magazine for text features. #nonfiction #projectbasedlearning

Text features chart that Amy did with her 2nd graders at Barton Hill