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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features

For Students K - 1st Standards
Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos and images to use while learning about text features in a nonfiction text.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
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Other

Dade Schools: John Ferguson: Informational Text Features

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
A table explaining different text features including graphics, visuals, and sections found in text.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Text Features

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart describes different text features, including captions, italics, diagrams, labels, and titles.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This is a strategy guide to determine if reading material is complex and therefore, worth a close reading. It offers a list of quantitative, qualitative, reader characteristics/task consideration measures of text complexity.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Classify and Categorize: Using Text Features to Find Information

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will develop research questions, classify information into an outline form, and use the features of nonfiction writing to identify information relevant to a research question.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Word 2010: Text Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A website with information, screenshots, and a video [3:40] on Microsoft Word 2010 text basics such as insert, delete, select, copy, cut paste, and drag and drop.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach learners how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Texting While Driving

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the issue of texting while driving; it features links to articles and a video about the dangers of texting and other distractions while driving and a teen survey with their attitudes on the subject. Students read...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand Information From Introductory Material, Headings, Etc.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to develop an overview of the material using information gained from text organization to help predict content and make connections. They also to gather information from reading the introduction,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Fish Camp Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand students' use of informational text as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Stalky and Company" by Kipling (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website provides the full text of Rudyard Kipling's novel, "Stalky and Company." A link to Bibiomania's main Kipling page features other full text works by this nineteenth century British author.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Sled Dog Dash Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. Molly and her friend Tooey use a fictional app to access information that will help...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Worm Turns Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, based on the animated story "The Worm Turns" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use several types of informational texts to gather facts. In the video, Molly and her friends are frightened after hearing...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Questioning the Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Informational Text

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...

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