Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction, Grade 2

By Evan-Moor Educational Publsihers

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 answerMain idea and detailsCause and effectCompare and contrastTime 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 objectiveA Teacher's Complex Text and a leveled student text with illustrationsA picture dictionary with content words and words to knowAn illustrated close-reading activityA comprehension and vocabulary activityAn oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussionA scaffolded writing activity that is used as a pre-writing exerciseA culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:

"How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for studentsA reproducible reading journal for studentsA student record sheetOverview of texts that includes the reading level, the text structure, the topic, and the student objectiveAn answer key

About Evan-Moor

A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164514335X
• ISBN13: 9781645143352
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3