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Nonfiction Text Features

Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 2
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Nonfiction Text Features
Lesson Description: The goal of the lesson is to help you learn about the various types of text features in nonfiction text. You will also learn how nonfiction text features help add to a text and provide the reader with important information about a new topic. You will watch a video to learn how to identify text features and then complete a 10-question quiz to show your understanding. Use the resources that follow the quiz for additional information and practice.

Other ELAGSE2RI5 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.

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Video : Nonfiction Text Features

Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.

Description: Learn how to identify nonfiction text features and discover how they can help you when reading a nonfiction text.

Quiz : Nonfiction Text Features Quiz

Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.

Question #1

Nonfiction text features help us better understand information in a nonficiton text.

A) True

B) False

Question #2

There is only one type of nonfiction text feature.

A) True

B) False

Question #3

What kind of text feature do we typically see on the front cover of a nonficiton text?

A) Caption

B) Title

C) Italicized Text

D) Map

Question #4

Diagrams are pictures with labels describing parts of an image or how something works.

A) Yes

B) No

Question #5

Which is NOT a nonfiction text feature?

A) Chart

B) Map

C) Bold Print

D) The Author

Question #6

Nonfiction text features do not provide the reader with new information about a topic.

A) True

B) False

Question #7

Which type of text feature helps you locate where to read about a specific topic in a text and helps organize text?

A) Subheadings

B) Graphs

C) Title

D) Diagrams

Question #8

Underlined print, bold text, and italicized text help draw the readers attention to specific words like vocabulary words.

A) Yes

B) No

Question #9

Which of the following text features help describe a picture?

A) Table of Contents

B) Maps

C) Captions

D) Titles

Question #10

Why are nonfiction text features important to a text?

Student Response

Description: Can you identify the different types of nonfiction text features and remember why we use them?

Resources : Additional Information for Nonfiction Text Features

Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.

Identifying Other Nonfiction Text Features
Watch this video to learn about other kinds of nonfiction text features.

National Geographic Spiders Read Aloud
Listen to the read aloud about spiders. At the end of the story, think of at least 3 different text features you noticed while reading the text. Make sure to include what page number you found them on.

Anchor Chart: Nonfiction Text Features
Use the image to help you review they different kinds of text features.

Description: See additional resources below to learn more information about nonfiction text features.

Standards:

Video : Nonfiction Text Features

Quiz : Nonfiction Text Features Quiz

Resources : Additional Information for Nonfiction Text Features