Introducing Nonfiction Text Features will be a breeze with this zero prep, interactive PowerPoint that will engage your students!

Introducing concepts, strategies, and skills? I’ve got the basics covered! This mini-lesson will help give your students a firm foundation that you can build on.

Teaching live? Share screen with your students and teach through the slides.

Create a resource bank! Post the PowerPoint or assign in Google Classroom for students to reference as they complete weekly assignments!

Back in the classroom?

Introduce a new unit with a complete and engaging presentation to anchor their learning.

Revisit presentations as end-of-unit review!

LOOKING FOR A FOLLOW-UP? After you've introduced Nonfiction Text Features, follow up with TEXT FEATURES LESSON #2 (click here) or keep them fresh in your students minds with these Nonfiction Text Feature Warm-Ups and Games. (click here)

What slides can you find in this minilesson?

You can also view the video preview to see all slides.

• What are features?
• What are text features?
• Title page
• Title
• Heading
• Table of Contents
• Index
• Glossary
• Photograph
• Illustration
• Caption
• Diagram
• Bold Print
• Italics
• Bullet Points
• Graph
• Label
• Map
• Table
• Text Box
• What Feature? (5 slides, 1 feature on each, students guess the feature)
• You Try! (students click to view a nonfiction read aloud)
• Graphic Organizer (students complete this slide based on the read aloud)

Click below to check out even more resources!

Set 1:

• Theme
• Character Feelings & Traits
• Story Elements
• Folktales

Set 2:

• Main Idea
• Context Clues
• Nonfiction Text Features 1
• Author's Purpose

Set 3:

• QAR
• Genre
• Sequencing
• Making Inferences

Set 4:

• Poetry
• Making Predictions
• Fiction vs Nonfiction
• Compare and Contrast

*Not Yet Bundled* Nonfiction Text Features 2

aligned with virginia and common core standards