Nonfiction Text Features Posters and Anchor Charts

Nonfiction text features are such an important part of helping our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students understand nonfiction texts. This set of nonfiction text feature posters will help your students learn how to identify and use 20 of the most common nonfiction text features when they are reading nonfiction text. Each poster clearly defines and describes a single text feature using student-friendly language and provides students with a visual to help them know what to look for when they are reading independently.

Planning for your reading lessons can take so much time. Think about how much time you’ll save not having to create an anchor chart for your lessons on text features. These ready-to-print anchor charts will serve as the backbone to your lessons on nonfiction text features.

EACH ANCHOR CHART INCLUDES:

• A student-friendly definition of the text feature
• An image or visual example of that text feature
• An explanation of how that text feature helps students when they read
• Questions to consider when students see that text feature in a text.

All the information included on the anchor charts will help your students to identify, use, study, and understand text features when they read nonfiction texts.

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET:

In this resource, you’ll get 20 anchor charts to help you teach your students all about text features. The posters are formatted in the following ways:

• Half-page anchor charts – perfect for students journals
• Full page anchor charts – works great for whole group lessons
• Digital version – created using Google Slides
• FIll-in version – available for both the half-page and full-page versions and are great if you want your students to take notes during the lesson

LOVED BY BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: 

Your students will love having access to these anchor charts during the year. They won’t feel the pressure to remember all the different types of text features because they know they can look back in their journals anytime they need a reminder.

You’ll love these anchor charts because they have easy-to-read font and are written with clear and concise language. Your students will understand the different types of text features with these anchor charts.

So many upper elementary teachers love these anchor charts because they aren’t cluttered with excess clipart or fonts that are too “cutesy”.

And, you have options. You can choose to print them in half pages for students to glue in their journals… or you can share them with your students in Google Classroom… or you can give students the fill-in version so they can take notes during your lessons. You can pick the version that will work for you and your students.

Prep is quick and easy… Just print the anchor chart option you want to use before your reading lesson and you’re ready to go.

ANCHOR CHART TITLES INCLUDE: 

• Caption
• Chart/Graph
• Diagram
• Heading
• Hyperlink or Icon
• Illustration
• Index
• Glossary
• Guide Words
• Keywords
• Labels
• Maps
• Photograph
• Subheading
• Subtitle
• Table of Contents
• Textbox
• Timeline
• Title
• Title Page

HOW TO USE THESE CHARTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

• Use as a model for your whole group lessons when you introduce text features.
• Give students a copy to glue in their journals after your lessons.
• Send home a copy to parents to keep them informed on what you are teaching in your reading class.
• Include a copy with your lesson plans to show your administrators what you’re teaching.
• Put posters on a ring or in a binder as a reference for small groups or workstations.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great resource to help students understand the text features. We used it with the Who Would Win books and found almost every feature in that book. Yay!” – Kimberly C.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I loved having these anchor charts as a visual to help students learn text features! The half sizes are perfect for interactive notebooks.” – Paige R.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great resource for teaching Text Features. I created booklets with the mini-posters so my students could use them as a resource for studying.” – Barbara S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “We just finished our first week of learning about nonfiction text features.  My students loved using this resource while combing through books to find and discuss the different features.” – Staci H.