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Genre Reading Passport | Literacy and Classroom Library Tool

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Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt (FREE Activity)

This free nonfiction text features scavenger hunt is an engaging no prep nonfiction reading activity! Perfect for working on nonfiction text features in reading with students in third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade. Visuals of each text feature are included and pair well with a nonfiction text features anchor chart or poster displayed.

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Engage Students with Free Nonfiction Text Feature Activities!

Looking for engaging, free activities to teach nonfiction text features? This set includes a ‘Nonfiction vs. Fiction’ sort using Scholastic catalogs, perfect for introducing the basics. Next, try ‘Nonfiction Text Feature Bingo’ to get students identifying captions, glossaries, and more. For a hands-on approach, the ‘Nonfiction Detective Find’ lets students hunt for these features in actual books. Great for building comprehension in elementary classrooms!

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6 Engaging Vocabulary Activities to Try in 2020 | Vocabulary activities, Teaching, Teaching vocabula

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Fun Classroom Vocabulary Games For Reviewing Any Word List

Teaching non-fiction text and graphic features - Smitten with First

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Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction Ideas & Resources

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Features of Nonfiction Text Feature Surgery

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Editor's note: We are so inspired by third grade teacher-adviser, Beth Orticelli, from Illinois, who uses Storyworks to draw students into studying “text features” in such a creative way. Her decidedly precise approach to helping students make meaning from text, “Surgery Day,” as she calls it, has children scan nonfiction stories for text features, and they love every minute of it...