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