What are nonfiction text features?
Nonfiction text features are features meant to draw the reader’s attention to the most important parts of a nonfiction text. Some commonly known examples of text features in nonfiction works are: table of contents, heading, special print (bold, italic, color, etc.) glossary, and index.
The mini dude has spent the past week exploring the world of nonfiction and, with that, learned a lot about text features and how they can make learning new information easier. The activities included here were created to align with standards pertaining to second grade nonfiction text features, but they can definitely be used for lower and higher grades.
So, what did we do with nonfiction text features this week?
We grabbed our nonfiction text features posters and searched through a few books from our home library – identifying examples of text features as we went.
We made a nonfiction text features anchor chart to display for continued reference.
*For the labels, I just printed an extra copy of terms from my interactive notebook document, cut them out, and highlighted the text.*
And we practiced with our 3-piece puzzles.
We still have a few more activities to help with understanding all of the new terms (interactive notebook, BINGO, I Have…Who Has…) but, overall, we had a pretty fun and informative introduction to nonfiction text features!
Check out my TPT store listing here for my text features posters, interactive notebook sheets, puzzles, BINGO, I Have…Who Has, PLUS the clipart I created to align with the terms.
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