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 orderIllustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:Science:• “Baby Blue Whale” Level I• “Big Machines” Level LGeography:• “Big Island Map” Level KSocial Studies:• “TOMS Shoes” Level I• “Rosa Parks Rides the Bus” Level L”What Does Congress Do?” Level MBiography:• “Ben Franklin and the Glass Harmonica” Level J• “Thank You, Sarah Josepha Hale” Level KHow-to:• “Fun with Magnets” Level HTechnical:• “Help Wanted: Earth Engineer” Level MEach 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 activityAdditional 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 keyRevised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.