GR 2 TEXT BASED WRITING LESSONS

Ideal for preparing your second-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:
• Compare and contrast
• Sequence
• Explanatory
• Informative
• Cause and effect
• Opinion

The 15 units provide activities 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:
• a picture dictionary with content vocabulary words to help students connect words with meanings
• 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

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
• Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
• Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
• The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
• The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!

The leveled nonfiction reading selections include:
• Biographies
• Geography articles
• Health articles
• Science articles
• Social studies articles