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✨Informational Text Breakdown & Nonfiction Text Feature Scavenger Hunt✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research breakdown, nonfiction book reports...etc! Includes print & digital versions.
Looking for a fun & engaging activities for nonfiction text | informational texts that's age-appropriate for your upper-grades? (Upper-Elementary - Middle School, Secondary) Do your students struggle with reading comprehension when it comes to nonfiction passages or informational texts?
This best-selling Informational Text Breakdown & Nonfiction Reading Response is just the thing!
***Use again & again & again
- Magazine articles (Time for Kids, National Geographic, Scholastic News...)
- Websites (Newsela, Read Theory, Common Lit, Read Works...etc
- Brochures (I have students bring back brochures from their trips!)
- Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages
- ...etc
This nonfiction graphic organizer has been updated to include both the PDF print & (editable) digital | google slide versions. PDF Version works as EASLE activity or assessment. Each response page is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned ELA concepts. #NOFLUFF
These Informational Text Summary Activities are ALL on a single page:
Pre-Read Section:
- Prediction
- Activate Schema
- Ask a Question
Reading Response Section:
- Main Idea
- Supporting details | evidence
- Author's Purpose | text evidence
- Reflection
- Connection to text
- Questions I still have
- Vocabulary
Text Feature Scavenger Hunt Section:
Author Information | Boldface Words | Bullet Points | Picture Captions | Graph Chart Diagram | Contact Information | Drawing Fact | Opinion | Italicized Words | Glossary Heading | Index | List | Map | Subheading | Subtitle | Photographs | Questions | Answers | Table of Contents | Title | Timeline | Pronunciation Guide
Editable Nonfiction Roll & Respond Extension: After reading the article students can dive in deeper to the text with one of these fun activity suggestions! Students decide which response activity they will complete by rolling a dice.
- Valuable Vocabulary
- Favorite Facts
- Text Feature... Feature
- From the Editor
- Illustrated Infographic
- Quiz Me
Both of these tools are intended to be used again, and again, and again! I like to model the activity as a whole class, then allow students to work independently.
Teachers have suggested using these with Time for Kids or Scholastic News in reading centers or rotations. Others have left them as a meaningful and effective activity to be completed with a substitute or in their emergency substitute plans.
SEE WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING… Recommended for 4th - 10th Grades
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love using the graphic organizer to reinforce how important text features are to gather information about the passage. IT is a great tool to use over & over. Many times I pair this with Scholastic articles for a sub assignment. - 5th Grade
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love that I can use this resource with any informational text! it is super detailed and really worked well as an independent activity! I can't wait to try using it as a whole group! - 6th Grade
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I use this weekly with my AIS kids to examine articles from NewsELA. It really forces them to look carefully at the text and the text structures. - 7th Grade
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This resource has worked well with my students to support them in understanding informative text and using informative texts for research purposes without plagiarizing the text. A great reference tool! - 9th, 10th, 11th Grade
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