Text Based Writing Nonfiction, Grade 2 - Softcover

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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
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The 15 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
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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
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Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
·     Downloadable homeâ??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!
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The leveled nonfiction reading selections include:
·     Biographies
·     Geography articles
·     Health articles
·     Science articles
·     Social studies articles
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Better Together! Nonfiction Writing and Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction
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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.Â

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