Analyzing Informational Text Worksheets

Support your students to confidently explore informational texts with these Analyzing Informational Text Worksheets. Designed for Year 1 and Year 2, this resource helps students identify and analyze the features and language of informative texts in an age‑appropriate and engaging way.

The pack includes three clear informational text examples on familiar topics:

• Honey Bees
• Seasons
• Birds

Each text is paired with guided worksheets that prompt students to analyze:

• Text purpose
• Main idea
• Language features
• Text features (such as headings, images, and diagrams)

Informative Text Examples Included

This curriculum-aligned resource pack that includes informative text examples focuses on helping students to: 

• recognize how information is organized and grouped to make meaning clear
• follow the logical order of ideas from beginning to end
• understand how headings and sections guide the reader
• see how images, diagrams and captions support and add meaning to the written text.

This helps students become more confident readers of informational texts and builds a strong foundation for writing their own informative texts.

Download and Help Students Understand the Text Features of Informative Texts

Perfect for literacy rotations, whole‑class analysis, small groups, or independent work, these worksheets support early comprehension skills and introduce students to the text features of informative texts in a manageable way.

Use the drop-down menu to choose between the easy to print PDF or the editable Google Slide version.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator. 

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