Text features worksheets

Each click picks one of the 26 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

Text features are a book's built-in helpers: headings, bold words, the table of contents, the glossary, the index. Good readers use them before reading, not just during.

Five grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.

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1st grade

Examples and teaching notes

First grade text features worksheets use short nonfiction passages split by two or three bold headings, with a Fun Fact or Words to Know section in many of them. Your child learns that a heading tells what its part is about, then uses the headings to find a fact. Four questions, three choices each, and the answer key on the last page.
2nd grade

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Second grade text features worksheets put real headings on the page: each passage is split into bold, labeled sections. Questions ask what the headings are called, what they tell a reader, and under which one a fact would be found.
3rd grade Core grade

Examples and teaching notes

Each click picks one of the 26 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

Third grade adds the book-level features: table of contents, index, glossary, and bold words. Questions become scenarios, such as which feature finds one fact fastest, alongside heading questions on the passage itself.
4th grade

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Fourth grade features work turns strategic: previewing headings before reading, choosing between contents and index for a job, and telling what kind of text a set of headings came from.
5th grade

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Fifth grade text features worksheets are nonfiction articles of about 210 words laid out like a textbook page: four or five headed sections, with a Words to Know glossary, a Did You Know? sidebar, a timeline or a Try This activity in most of them. Five questions with four choices ask where a fact lives, which section a new fact or photo belongs in, and why the author added a feature.