Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2

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.

Key Features :

i : Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!
ii : 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.
iii : Includes illustrated nonfiction texts in a variety of content-area topics.
iv : Includes teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.
v : Includes an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.