Text-Based Writing, Grade 2
Boost grade 2 students' reading and writing skills with these engaging lessons! Practice important nonfiction writing forms such as compare and contrast, sequencing, explanatory, informative, cause and effect, and opinion. Explore 15 leveled nonfiction texts (levels I to M) including biographies, health articles, science articles, and social studies articles. Each unit provides reading comprehension guidance, pre-writing tasks, and text-dependent writing prompts. Additional teacher resources include texts across the curriculum, a suggested teaching path, a student rubric focusing on the 6 traits of writing, a vocabulary list, and updates to the content.
Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes content updates.
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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.
Information
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 2
Brand: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
UPC: 9781645143529
