Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2 Teacher Resource

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 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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• 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