Text-Based Writing (Grade 2)

Text-Based Writing (Grade 2)

by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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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
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