Overview
Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 2 students become strong readers and writers!
Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:
- Compare and contrast
- Sequence
- Explanatory
- Informative
- Cause and effect
- Opinion
15 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels I to M and include:
- Biographies
- Health articles
- Science articles
- Social studies articles
Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks 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:
- directed reading strategies
- a dictionary page that introduces content words
- close reading of a leveled nonfiction articletext-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 prompt
Additional resources and features for teachers include:
- Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels I to M
- A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction
- A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
- A vocabulary and definitions list
- A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit
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