We have been working on text features since the second week of school (so about 3 weeks now). I love teaching text features. Kids LOVE informational text and you should hear the amazing information that they are excited to learn during these first few weeks. We first started by adding some information to our anchor charts and focus wall. (some of these pics are upside down and will not rotate, I'm sorry!)
You can probably see we also have mini examples of 26 types of text features (in alphabetical order!) also on the wall. I provide a binder with full size examples and also some smaller size flash cards so kids can work hands on if they need to. We then search through magazines and cut and glue examples into a scrapbook.
As well as working in the scrapbook, students are also learning about how to write about text features and understanding why we need text features in our nonfiction books, including close reading.
I have many of these amazing "Smart Words" books from scholastic. These are at a perfect reading level and also contain many different types of text features and there is a variety of topics.
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