In this paper, we introduce a two-step procedure, in the context of high dimensional additive models, to identify nonzero linear and nonlinear components. We first develop a sure independence screening procedure based on the distance correlation between predictors and marginal distribution function of the response variable to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space to a moderate scale. Then a double penalization based procedure is applied to identify nonzero and linear components, simultaneously. We conduct extensive simulation experiments and a real data analysis to evaluate the numerical performance of the proposed method.