Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 2

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 33 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple "teach, practice, and assess" approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Second Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts • Main Idea and Details • Text Features and Visual Information • Description • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast • Sequence • Problem and Solution • Description • Predict • Vocabulary • Summarize • Fact and Opinion • Make Inferences • Author's Purpose Second Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts • Character • Setting • Plot • Theme • Point of View • Predict • Figurative Language • Vocabulary • Visual Information • Summarize • Make Inferences • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, and poetry. Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.

• 33 Skill units for Grade 2
• Includes fiction and nonfiction texts
• Improves comprehension and test taking skills
• 176 Pages