Nonfiction glossary worksheets

The concept of nonfiction can be very abstract, making it difficult to teach the concept. These worksheets look at the nonfiction text feature; glossary. Within these worksheets is three activities that are designed to help students understand the concept of a glossary as well as to be able to create their own glossary.

This download includes a printable worksheets with three activities, printable checklist with a checklist for individual students and for the class and finally a answer sheet with answers to the activities.

The objectives of these worksheets is to deepen the understanding of exactly what a glossary is and how to create one.

The first activity helps students to break down a word and describe a particular word like you would in a glossary, the second activity asks students to identify words within a passage and describe them and the final activity lists three words for students to describe with a sentence. There is a checklist for teachers to capture the data from the worksheets.

These activities are great for grade 1,2 and 3 and can be used as an introduction, recap, support or enrichment. Simply print the activity and hand out students.

If you like these worksheets have a look at the nonfiction text feature glossary lesson which goes a long side these PDFs and contains the online versions of the activities given as well as lesson slides that are animated with speaker notes.

Number of pages: Activities: 5, Answer sheets: 5, Checklist: 8

If you like these worksheets be sure to check out the following worksheets:

• * Nonfiction headings and subheadings

• * Nonfiction index

• * Nonfiction text features

• * Nonfiction introduction

• * Nonfiction glossary

• * Nonfiction title

• * Nonfiction captions and labels

• * Nonfiction photographs and illustrations

• * Nonfiction table of contents

• * Nonfiction title page

If you like these worksheets be sure to have a look at the nonfiction text feature lesson that goes along with these worksheets and has the similar activities that can be done instead of the printable activities as part of online learning/blended learning:

• * Nonfiction glossary lesson

- Activities: Three activities

- Answer sheets

- Checklists: Individual checklist, class checklist