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Text-Based Writing, Grade 2 Teacher Resource - (Text-Based-Writing) by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 2 students become strong readers and writers!
- 7-8 Years
- 10.8" x 8.41" Paperback
- 144 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Writing Skills
- Series Name: Text-Based-Writing
Description
About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
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 articletext-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
About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.