Text Based Writing, Grade 2

Ideal for preparing your second-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as:

-Compare and contrast
-Sequence
-Explanatory
-Informative
-Cause and effect
-Opinion

The 15 units provide activities 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:

-a picture dictionary with content vocabulary words to help students connect words with meanings
-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

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!

-Downloadable home school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
-Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
-The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
-The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!

The leveled nonfiction reading selections include:

-Biographies
-Geography articles
-Health articles
-Science articles
-Social studies articles

Better Together! Nonfiction Writing and Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction

Nonfiction Writing introduces students to the elements of expository, narrative, and persuasive writing, while Text-Based Writing asks students to practice these nonfiction writing forms in text-dependent paragraphs and essays.