Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage second-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, picture dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.

Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your second-grade students! Building strong literacy skills in grade 2 lays a strong foundation for academic success.

Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!

Text structures include:
• Question and answer
• Main idea and details
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Time order

Illustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:
• "Baby Blue Whale" Level I
• "Big Machines" Level L

Geography:
• "Big Island Map" Level K

Social Studies:
• "TOMS Shoes" Level I
• "Rosa Parks Rides the Bus" Level L
"What Does Congress Do?" Level M

Biography:
• "Ben Franklin and the Glass Harmonica" Level J
• "Thank You, Sarah Josepha Hale" Level K

How-to:
• "Fun with Magnets" Level H

Technical:
• "Help Wanted: Earth Engineer" Level M

Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A Teacher's Complex Text and a leveled student text with 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 that is used as a pre-writing exercise
• A culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• A reproducible reading journal for students
• A student record sheet
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, the text structure, and the topic and the student objective
• An answer key

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.