Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage second-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include eight fiction genres, reading selections and picture dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing prompt activities.
Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your second-grade students!
Choose from ten units that span fiction genres or use them all!
• Poetry
• Fairy tale
• Realistic fiction
• Fable
• Folk tale
• Tall tale
Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
• Story dictionary with content words and words to know
• Illustrated close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
• Writing prompt activity
Additional teacher resources:
• Comprehensive picture dictionary
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• Literary genres chart
• Literary elements and story structure chart
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure
The ten illustrated reading selections in the grade 2 book are:
• Poetry: "The Swing," Level H
• Poetry: "Water Fun," Level M
• Fairy Tale: "The Elves and the Shoemaker," Level I
• Realistic Fiction: "River Rafting," Level J
• Aesop’s Fable: "The North Wind and the Sun," Level J
• Folk Tale: "The Rat Princess," Level J
• Folk Tale: "The Flute," Level L
• Tall Tale: "Febold Feboldson," Level L
• Realistic Fiction: "What Ben Franklin Said," Level L
• Fairy Tale: "Jackie and the Beanstalk," Level M
Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.
