A 4th grade informative writing worksheet about text features. Students read a short informational article about monarch butterfly migration and identify how its title, headings, bold words, diagram, caption, and glossary help a reader find and understand information. They match features to their jobs, write headings for paragraphs, write a caption and a glossary entry, and then plan and write a short informational article that uses text features of their own.
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Completed: Text Features in Informational Writing: Headings, Captions, and Diagrams
4th Grade students (typically ages 9–10) working on informative writing. It is pitched at level 2 · standard.
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Text features are signposts. Use them to help your reader find information fast.
Text features help readers find and understand information. Read the article, then answer.
Monarchs on the Move
A Long Journey
Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly south to the mountains of central Mexico. Many of them pass through Texas on the way. This trip is called a migration. The monarchs spend the winter in the forests there and fly north again in the spring.
Milkweed Matters
Monarch caterpillars eat only one kind of plant: milkweed. A female monarch lays her eggs on milkweed leaves so her caterpillars have food as soon as they hatch.
A Warning in Orange
Milkweed contains a poison. Monarchs store some of it in their bodies, which makes them taste bad to many birds. Their bright orange wings warn birds to stay away.
*[Diagram: the life cycle of a monarch, with arrows from egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → adult butterfly]*
*Caption: A monarch changes four times during its life.*
Glossary: migration: a long trip animals take at the same time each year. chrysalis: the hard case a caterpillar forms around itself while it changes into a butterfly.
A good heading is short and tells exactly what the section is about.
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