Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your second-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards
This series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:
The 15 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
a picture dictionary with content vocabulary words to help students connect words with meanings close reading of a leveled nonfiction article text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing a text-dependent writing promptTeachers will appreciate these additional resources and features:
Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home. The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easyThe leveled nonfiction reading selections include:
Biographies Geography articles Health articles Science articles Social studies articlesThis resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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