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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