Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1

Build strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include picture dictionaries with words to know, plus comprehension, vocabulary, and scaffolded writing activities. Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students! This series supports new readers with illustrations and controlled vocabulary as well as scaffolded comprehension, vocabulary, and writing practice. Choose from 10 units that span a variety of grade-level topics or use them all! Illustrated nonfiction minibooks and two-page selections in this grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics: Science: • "We Need the Sun" Level C • "Little Blue Butterfly" Level D • "About the Wind" Level G • "Water" Level G Social Studies: • "The Statue of Liberty" Level D • "Looking at the United States" Level E Biography: • "Winslow Homer, American Artist" Level C • "Maria Martinez, Native American Potter" Level E • "George Washington Carver" Level F How-to: • "How to Make the President’s Breakfast" Level F Each unit includes: • Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective • A Teacher’s Complex Text and a leveled student minibook or two-page reading selection with photos and illustrations • A picture dictionary with content words and words to know • An illustrated close-reading activity • A comprehension and vocabulary activity • An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion • A scaffolded writing activity Additional teacher resources: • "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students • A reproducible reading journal for students • An answer key Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.

Key Features :

i : Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1 builds strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities!
ii : Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students!
iii : Includes illustrated nonfiction minibooks and two-page selections on a variety of content-area topics
iv : Includes a teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
v : Includes a n oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.