Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1

Build strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include picture dictionaries with words to know, plus comprehension, vocabulary, and scaffolded writing activities.Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students! This series supports new readers with illustrations and controlled vocabulary as well as scaffolded comprehension, vocabulary, and writing practice.Choose from 10 units that span a variety of grade-level topics or use them all!Illustrated nonfiction minibooks and two-page selections in this grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:Science:• “We Need the Sun” Level C• “Little Blue Butterfly” Level D• “About the Wind” Level G• “Water” Level GSocial Studies:• “The Statue of Liberty” Level D• “Looking at the United States” Level EBiography:• “Winslow Homer, American Artist” Level C• “Maria Martinez, Native American Potter” Level E• “George Washington Carver” Level FHow-to:• “How to Make the President’s Breakfast” Level FEach unit includes:• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective• A Teacher’s Complex Text and a leveled student minibook or two-page reading selection with photos and 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 activityAdditional teacher resources:• “How to Be a Good Reader” resource page for students• A reproducible reading journal for students• An answer keyRevised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.