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:
ˇ¤ Compare and contrast
ˇ¤ Cause and effect
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:
ˇ¤ a picture dictionary with content vocabulary words to help students connect words with meanings
ˇ¤ close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
ˇ¤ text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
ˇ¤ a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
ˇ¤ a text-dependent writing prompt
Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
ˇ¤ Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
ˇ¤ Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
ˇ¤ The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
ˇ¤ The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!
The leveled nonfiction reading selections include:
ˇ¤ Geography articles
ˇ¤ Health articles
ˇ¤ Science articles
ˇ¤ Social studies articles