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• Opinion15 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels I to M and include:• Biographies• Health articles• Science articles• Social studies articlesUnits 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 promptAdditional 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 unitRevised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content. Recommended age 7 years
