Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2 Teacher Resource

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