Text Features

About this resource

A child who can find the title, a heading, a caption, a bold word, a glossary and a table of contents can find things in a book. This is a complete kit of text features worksheets for kindergarten through 2nd grade: a helper page, nine practice pages, an answer key, and the log, class grid, family note and phrase bank around them, so nothing has to be written from scratch. Children look at each feature, find it on a page, name it, say what it does, glue it in a box, and make a page of their own.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (21 pages)

• 1 Text Feature Helper page: six cards, each with the feature's name, its job in one short sentence and a small example
• 9 practice pages, easiest to hardest: Find It (3 pages), Name It (2 pages), Which One Helps?, Match the Job, Cut and Glue, Make Your Own Page
• 6 text features: title, caption, heading, bold word, glossary, table of contents
• 51 things to find, name, circle, match, glue or make across the practice pages
• 1 answer key, generated from the same data as every student page
• 1 log (9 pages, dated), 1 class grid (15 students), 1 family note with three ways to help at home
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank of 15 observable-language starters
• 6 divider tabs and a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and terms of use

The Practice Pages

1. Text Feature Helper: look at each feature, read its job.

2. Find It (Sets A, B, C, three levels marked by dots): a whole page drawn as boxes, six parts numbered, the caption's number on the caption text. Set A (one dot) has the names printed faintly to trace. Set B (two dots) has a bank of eight words for six blanks: two left over (index and map) are not on the page. Set C (three dots) has no word bank, only a pointer to the helper page.

3. Name It (Pages A, B): six parts with an orange box around one. Circle its name from three.

4. Which One Helps?: six short sentences, like "I do not know what a word means." Circle the feature that helps.

5. Match the Job: six names, seven jobs, draw a line. One job is extra.

6. Cut and Glue: eight pieces in a strip of two rows, six glue boxes. Two pieces are left over. The cutting is a few straight lines.

7. Make Your Own Page: a title line, a picture box, a caption line, a heading line and a line for a sentence, all on primary lines.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a small picture icon, large rounded letters, and room to write on every page. Dots, not words, show the level of each page: one dot for a first step, two for the standard task, three for ready for more. Find It comes in all three. A picture on a page is drawn as a gray box, so the child looks at the text feature itself. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult, and only one page needs scissors and glue.

Every Word And Number Is Generated, Never Typed

Every part number, wrong choice, answer position and count on every page, key, log and example is computed from the same data at build time, so the pages and the key cannot drift apart. The right answer's position is shuffled so no pattern gives it away, and a wrong choice is never a feature a child could fairly argue for.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, make-your-own-page lines, log, class grid, family note and phrase bank are type-in fields in any PDF reader. What a child writes, circles or glues is pencil and glue work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, intervention groups and tutors who teach how to use the parts of a nonfiction page. Your district's own reading scope and sequence decides when to teach each feature.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A set of text features worksheets with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file. There are no reading passages; if you want scored passage forms for data collection, that is a different resource.