Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1

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.