Looking for a complete nonfiction text features bundle that has everything you need? This bundle includes nonfiction text features anchor charts, sorting activities, worksheets, scavenger hunts, reference pages you can use as classroom posters, and 5 high-interest informational text passages and questions. Students use text-features graphic organizer-style activities as they learn, practice, apply, explain, and analyze nonfiction text features.

These two resources create a clear instructional progression.

Resource 1: Learn + Practice

teaches 22 nonfiction text features and gives students repeated opportunities to identify, understand, choose, find, and use them

Resource 2: Apply + Explain

moves those skills into complete print, digital, and visual informational texts where students must explain how features help readers and integrate information from multiple sources and visuals

Use the resources together as a complete grades 3–5 nonfiction text features unit, or use either resource independently to target specific skills. Both resources have been completely updated and expanded! The bundle now includes refreshed visuals, purpose-based instruction, modern print and digital sources, authentic text-feature examples, high-interest informational texts, scaffolded student practice, assessment, and answer keys.

Included in this download:

⭐ RESOURCE 1 — NONFICTION TEXT FEATURES: LEARN + PRACTICE

• 22 nonfiction text features organized by purpose
  • Find and Organize
  • Define and Emphasize
  • Show and Explain
  • Add and Extend
• At-a-Glance nonfiction text features reference chart
• Purpose-based nonfiction text features anchor charts
• Color and black-and-white reference pages
• 5 Identify It! nonfiction text features sorts
  • 4 purpose-based sorts
  • 1 mixed review
• 2 Understand It! feature-to-purpose matching activities
• Choose It! Reader’s Goal
  • 16 authentic reading scenarios
  • recording sheet and word bank
• 3 Text Features Scavenger Hunts
  • Find It!
  • Explain It!
  • Use It!
• 3-page Text Tour
• Visual Text Features: Bees at Work
  • informational text
  • diagram
  • graph
  • visual-integration practice
• Print + Digital: Hurricanes
  • print source
  • digital source
  • navigation and source-integration practice
• Rhinoceroses culminating activity
• 4-page Nonfiction Text Features Assessment
• Teacher guide
• Answer keys and sample responses

⭐ RESOURCE 2 — NONFICTION TEXT FEATURES: APPLY + EXPLAIN

• 5 high-interest informational text sets
  • Towering Giraffes
  • Giant Pandas
  • Volcanoes
  • Amelia Earhart
  • America’s National Parks
• Print text feature practice
• Digital text feature practice
• Visual text feature analysis
• Photographs and captions
• Diagrams and illustrations
• Maps and timelines
• Glossaries and sidebars
• Hyperlinks and search tools
• Infographics and graph interpretation
• Heading and subheading practice
• Identify It!
• Explain It!
• Use It!
• Multiple-choice questions
• Open-ended responses
• Teacher guide
• Answer keys and sample responses

Together, the two resources intentionally move students from recognizing and understanding nonfiction text features to using, comparing, integrating, and explaining them inside authentic reading situations.

Perfect for:

• Whole-group instruction
• Small groups
• Literacy centers
• Independent practice
• Intervention groups
• Review
• Test preparation
• Formative assessment
• Sub plans
• Early finishers
• Informational text units
• Nonfiction reading instruction

Teach the bundle sequentially as a complete unit, or select individual anchor charts, sorts, text features worksheets, passages, and activities based on student need.

More About This Bundle:

Students are not asked to simply memorize the appearance of a heading, caption, glossary, map, or timeline. They learn why the feature is there, when it is useful, and how it contributes to understanding informational text.

• Resource 1 provides the explicit teaching and supported practice students need to build a strong foundation.
• Resource 2 gives students the opportunity to transfer those skills into complete informational texts where the features function naturally.

The variety also makes differentiation easy. Students can begin with anchor charts, sorts, matching, and guided practice before progressing to digital navigation, visual analysis, multiple-source thinking, open-ended explanation, and assessment.

Teachers get two coordinated resources with consistent terminology, visual design, instructional language, and skill progression – plus ready-to-use student pages and answer keys.

The Best Part:

The bundle moves students through a complete progression:

• What is the feature?
• What does it do?
• When would I use it?
• Can I find it in a real text?
• Can I use it to understand information?
• Can I explain how it helps the reader?

Students move beyond text-feature recognition and become more strategic, independent readers of informational text.

By the end of the bundle, students are navigating print and digital sources, interpreting maps, diagrams, graphs, timelines, and infographics, comparing information from different features, and explaining how multiple features work together to build understanding.

Supports the Following Standards:

RI.3.5, RI.3.7, RI.3.9

RI.4.5, RI.4.7, RI.4.9

RI.5.5, RI.5.7, RI.5.9

⭐ Give students the full nonfiction text features progression – from explicit instruction and targeted practice to authentic application, analysis, and independent reading.

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