Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your second-grade students! Building strong literacy skills in grade 2 lays a strong foundation for academic success.Includes illustrated nonfiction texts in a variety of content-area topics.Includes teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.Includes an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.
Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage second-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, picture dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your second-grade students! Building strong literacy skills in grade 2 lays a strong foundation for academic success.
Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!
Text structures include:
o Question and answer
o Main idea and details
o Cause and effect
o Compare and contrast
o Time order
Illustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:
Science:
o "Baby Blue Whale" Level I
o "Big Machines" Level L
Geography:
o "Big Island Map" Level K
Social Studies:
o "TOMS Shoes" Level I
o "Rosa Parks Rides the Bus" Level L
"What Does Congress Do" Level M
Biography:
o "Ben Franklin and the Glass Harmonica" Level J
o "Thank You, Sarah Josepha Hale" Level K
How-to:
o "Fun with Magnets" Level H
Technical:
o "Help Wanted: Earth Engineer" Level M
Each unit includes:
o Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
o A Teacher's Complex Text and a leveled student text with illustrations
o A picture dictionary with content words and words to know
o An illustrated close-reading activity
o A comprehension and vocabulary activity
o An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
o A scaffolded writing activity that is used as a pre-writing exercise
o A culminating text-based writing activity
Additional teacher resources:
o "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
o A reproducible reading journal for students
o A student record sheet
o Overview of texts that includes the reading level, the text structure, and the topic and the student objective
o An answer key
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.
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