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Text-Based Writing, Grade 2 - Teacher's Edition

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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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.