Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students!

Choose from 10 units that span a variety of grade-level topics or use them all!

Illustrated nonfiction minibooks and two-page selections in this grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:

"We Need the Sun" Level C
"Little Blue Butterfly" Level D
"About the Wind" Level G
"Water" Level G

Social Studies:

"The Statue of Liberty" Level D
"Looking at the United States" Level E

Biography:

"Winslow Homer, American Artist" Level C
"Maria Martinez, Native American Potter" Level E
"George Washington Carver" Level F

How-to

"How to Make the President's Breakfast" Level F

Each unit includes:

Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
A Teacher's Complex Text and a leveled student minibook or two-page reading selection with photos and 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

Additional teacher resources:

"How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
A reproducible reading journal for students
An answer key

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