Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2 Teacher Resource

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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Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK-8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.