Text-Based Writing

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Support 2nd-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more. Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 2 students become strong readers and writers! Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms: • Compare and contrast • Sequence • Explanatory • Informative • Cause and effect • Opinion 15 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels I to M and include: • Biographies • Health articles • Science articles • Social studies articles Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks 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: • directed reading strategies • a dictionary page that introduces content words • close reading of a leveled nonfiction article • text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding • a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing • a text-dependent writing prompt Additional resources and features for teachers include: • Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels I to M • A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction • A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions • A vocabulary and definitions list • A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content.