Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Text-Based Writing, Grade 2
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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 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 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. Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content.
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