TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to videos and images to use while learning about text features in a nonfiction text.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text
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.
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.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: Caption This
In this activity, students learn how to copy an image from the Internet and follow copyright. Images must be in the public domain and free from copyright protection. They can be copied from Google, but they have to be public domain and...
Read Works
Read Works: Using Headings to Determine the Main Idea: The Shark: Silent Hunter
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Jfk Speech
This lesson focuses on John F. Kennedy's speech, "We Choose to go to the Moon," delivered at Rice University on September 12, 1962. It features links to JFK's biography and Wikipedia entry, the National Geographic: "Moon 101" video, the...
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.
Read Works
Read Works: After the Floods
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a horrific flood that devastated parts of Pakistan in 2010. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Tuesdays With Morrie
This lesson focuses on the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom about the time he spent with his sociology professor who was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease. It features links to Mitch Albom's website, a Wikipedia article about...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: The Woman Warrior
This lesson focuses on The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, memoirs of her growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants. It features links to an excerpt of the text, and summaries and commentaries from Shmoop and Sparknotes. There...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Henry Adams
This site features the author Henry Adams including the full text of the novel Democracy, An American Novel and the nonfiction work The Education of Henry Adams.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Saint Augustine
This site features the author Saint Augustine including the full text of the nonfiction work The Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas Bulfinch
This site features the author Thomas Bulfinch including the full text of the nonfiction work Bulfinch's Mythology, a collection of stories of the gods and heroes, British hero myths, legends of Charlemagne, etc.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Georg Ebers
This site features the author Georg Ebers including the full text of 18 novels, one nonfiction work, and two short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This site features the author Thomas Bailey Aldrich including the full text of the novel The Story of a Bad Boy, the nonfiction work An Old Town by the Sea, the poetry collection The Sister's Tragedy, and two short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Stephen Leacock
This site features the author Stephen Leacock including the full text of five novels such as Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, as well as, the nonfiction work My Discovery of England.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Gilbert K. Chesterton
This site features the author Gilbert K. Chesterton including a biography, the full text of eight novels including The Innocence of Father Brown and The Man Who Knew Too Much and the nonfiction work All Things Considered.