Nonfiction Text Features Posters Anchor Chart Set
 
Being able to use various nonfiction text features is essential for understanding informational text. This is an especially important skill in the content areas of science and social studies. This set of posters, worksheets, and assessment helps students identify, understand, and use text features they encounter when reading nonfiction texts.
 
 
🔵 WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE?
 
Text Feature Anchor Chart Posters:
Each poster in this set includes a definition along with an illustrated example of the target text feature. Featuring clear, easy to read fonts and images, these posters are an excellent curriculum resource that provide visual support to your students. Hang them in your classroom where students can easily refer to them during your reading lessons.
 
There are 15 nonfiction text feature posters in this set including:
 
diagram
table of contents
heading
boldface type (also provided as "Bold Print")
map
timeline
glossary
index
caption
graph
bullet points
sidebar
illustration
photograph
italics
 
Text Feature Activities:
In addition to the posters, this resource also includes the following companion activities to reinforce student learning.
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Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt
This is a single-page worksheet that lets students practice identifying and using text features found in a book. is best used as a practice activity during independent reading or centers. Students can look through old magazines or favorite non-fiction texts to find what text features are used and how they help the reader understand the content.
 
Identifying Text Features Worksheet
The is a cut and glue worksheet that tests students' understanding of text feature purposes. It can be used for practice or as an assessment piece. Students must match each text fiction to its corresponding description.
 
Student Reference Sheet
This is a quick, one-page guide that explains what each text feature is. It also doubles as an answer key for the cut-and-glue worksheet. Once students complete the worksheet, they can keep a copy in their reading folders to refer to as needed.
 
 
🟢 OTHER WAYS TO USE THIS RESOURCE
 
These versatile posters can be used in several different ways. They can be left whole and hung on a wall or bulletin board for students to refer to throughout the year. They can also be cut apart into two separate cards (example and definition). I like to mount magnets on the back of the separate pieces to create a whole group matching activity on the white board.
 
Instructions are also included for printing the posters as smaller hand-held cards. These can be used during your literacy centers as a matching game, for student pairing (find your text feature partner), or as mini posters that students can keep in their reading folders or interactive notebooks as a visual reference.
 
 
🔴 HOW OTHER TEACHERS HAVE USED THIS RESOURCE:
 
Jan said, "Students loved them. They took the iPods, found the images in the nonfiction materials they were using, took a picture of the specific item, put the images together and made a classroom chart. Excellent.
 
Melissa said, "I laminated these non-fiction text features posters and used them as a literacy center where students matched them. I also used them along with a Scholastic News and had students complete a Scavenger Hunt for text features. Great resource."
 
Jessica said, "These cards were perfect for teaching and practicing text features.  I printed multiple posters per page to get 4 sets of text features as "playing cards."  I left the pairs together to teach the text feature and its picture, then cut the pair apart and students used them as matching.  I love that these posters are "no frills" and straightforward."
 
Maria said, "This is one of my most used resources. Used it for remote. I snapshot the text features and added them to a google slide for my first graders so that they can incorporate them in their writing."
 
 
🟣 STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
 
This resource is aligned to the following first grade, second grade, and third grade English Language Arts standards:
 
CCSSRI.1.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
 
CCSSRI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
 
CCSSRI.3.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.