Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1

Build strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include picture dictionaries with words to know, plus comprehension, vocabulary, and scaffolded writing activities.

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.