Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your second-grade students!
Choose from ten units that span fiction genres or use them all!
- Poetry
- Fairy fale
- Realistic fiction
- Fable
- Folk tale
- Tall tale
Each unit includes:
- Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
- One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
- Story dictionary with content words and words to know
- Illustrated close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
- Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
- Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
- Writing prompt activity
Additional teacher resources:
- Comprehensive picture dictionary
- "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
- Literary genres chart
- Literary elements and story structure chart
- Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure
The illustrated reading selections in the grade 2 book are:
- Poetry: "The Swing," Level H
- Poetry: "Water Fun," Level M
- Fairy Tale: "The Elves and the Shoemaker," Level I
- Realistic Fiction: "River Rafting," Level J
- Aesop's Fable: "The North Wind and the Sun," Level J
- Folk Tale: "The Rat Princess," Level J
- Folk Tale: "The Flute," Level L
- Tall Tale: "Febold Feboldson," Level L
- Realistic Fiction: "What Ben Franklin Said," Level L
- Fairy Tale: "Jackie and the Beanstalk," Level M
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