Reading Activities for Nonfiction Text Features | Digital & Printable Reading Comprehension Toolkit

Description

These nonfiction text features activities give you everything you need to teach nonfiction text features like captions, diagrams, glossaries, maps, and timelines, with digital and printable mini-lessons, anchor charts, reading passages, response sheets, and more.

Teaching Tools

• Nonfiction Text Features chant with teaching video
• Focus posters for nonfiction, facts, true and false, table of contents, photographs, labels, captions, diagrams, maps, timelines, close-ups, bold print, headings, subheadings, electronic menus, charts and graphs, glossaries, indexes, and icons
• NF Text Feature Match and Take a Close Look digital anchor charts
• Printable text feature and information from visuals anchor charts
• Text features bookmarks and printables

Interactive Digital Activities

• Caption This
• Click and Explore: electronic menus, hyperlinks, search bars, maps, and charts
• Focus on the Features: table of contents, index, and maps
• Volcanoes nonfiction activity and volcano nonfiction reader
• Where Did I Get My Thinking?
• Labeling and Diagrams

Practice and Assessment

• 12 leveled reading passages
• Exit tickets for text features
• 5 reading response sheets

Digital Formats

• PowerPoint: files are in the zip folder
• Google Slides: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and save
• Seesaw: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and assign to your class

Differentiation

• Reading passages come in 3 levels, with 4 passages at each level

Good to Know

This is not a set of lesson plans. It is a set of activities to use whenever you focus on this skill, during a unit of study or all year as you read books in class. The activities are not book specific, and the video mini-lessons feature Katie and Amy teaching the skill.

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