Build strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include picture dictionaries with words to know, plus comprehension, vocabulary, and scaffolded writing activities.
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students! This series supports new readers with illustrations and controlled vocabulary as well as scaffolded comprehension, vocabulary, and writing practice.
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
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.