Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features
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...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Classify and Categorize: Using Text Features to Find Information
[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.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Buzzing Tails
This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.
Other
The Nizkor Project: Fallacies
The Nizkor Project: Fallacies is a text provides an explaination of fallaces. It identifies the specific kinds of fallacies as well as gives a couple of examples.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: An Ornithologist's Job
In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job. [3:54]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Bio Media Associates: Learning Programs for Biology
This site provides photographs, animations, essays, teaching resources, multimedia, and other information about biological systems and organisms. It features a monthly contest and quiz in which students and teachers identify a mystery...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Narrative Necklaces and Beyond! [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will create a piece of art that will identify an artist, but is not a standard self-portrait with traditional facial features. It will be a collage incorporating images, colors, symbols, and text to help...