Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your second-grade students!

Choose from 8 units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Realistic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Folktales
• Fables
• Rhymes
• Poetry

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A leveled reading selection in a minibook format
• Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a "Words to Know" list
• Reading comprehension activities: "I Read Closely," "I Read and Understand," and "I Tell the Story"
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre activity such as "I Read a Fable"
• Writing activity: "I Can Write"

Additional teacher resources:

• Reproducible reading journal for students
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The eight illustrated reading selections in the grade 1 book are:

• Realistic fiction: "Caleb's Year," Level D
• Poetry: "Color," Level D
• Poetry: "
• Bed in Summer," Level E
• Folk Tale: "The Ant's Voice," Level F
• Aesop's Fable: "The Bear and the Bees," Level G
• Nursery Rhyme: "Three Little Kittens," Level H
• Historical Fiction: "Mary's Fourth of July," Level H
• A Navajo Folk Tale: "Spider Woman," Level I

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