GR2 READING COMPREHENSION NONFICTIN

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: ? 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, and the topic and the student objective ? An answer key Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.