Text Features Lesson & Activities Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Crew

Let’s make finding nonfiction text features fun and exciting! Try the Comprehension Crew for teaching text features and practicing with engaging activities. Your students will be begging for more!

This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach text features to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.

Tito the Text Feature Explorer will help you teach identifying nonfiction text features to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. Tito helps readers identify the text features and interpret how they help to understand the text.

This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice understanding the text features. Google slides version available.

*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program

The resource includes the following:

Character Posters & Visual Aids
Character Profile- includes character profession, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
Concrete Text Features Activity
Introduction & Modeling Text Feature Lesson Plan- can be applied to any book
Teacher Implementation Tips
Graphic Organizers- 14 differentiated options for any text
Flip Books- 2 options that can be used with any text
Interactive Notebook
Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Practice Text Features Nonfiction Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included
Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books

What is the Comprehension Crew?

Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

determining importance
main idea
text features
text structure
vocabulary
inferencing
questioning
predicting
summarizing
clarifying
connecting- TRY FOR FREE!
synthesizing
evaluating
visualizing
theme

Teacher Reviews

1st grade teacher Jennifer said, “My students really enjoyed this resource! I highly recommend this product!”

2nd grade teacher Gloria said, “My students loved the text features lesson and activities!”