Help your second-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
 
Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as poetry, folk tale, realistic fiction, and classic fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Vocabulary: Picture dictionary with content and academic vocabulary
• Analyze and discuss: “I Read Closely,” “I Read and Understand,” and an oral close reading activity
• Learn and apply: “Words I Know” and “I Read a Fable” (genre activity)
• Respond: “I Think About the Plot” and “I Can Write”

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Poetry: “The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “Water Fun”
• Fairy Tale: “The Elves and the Shoemaker”
• Realistic Fiction: “River Rafting”
• Aesop’s Fable: “The North Wind and the Sun”
• Folk Tale: “The Rat Princess”
• Folk Tale: “The Flute”
• Tall Tale: “Febold Feboldson”
• Realistic Fiction: “What Ben Franklin Said”
• Classic Fiction: “Tom Paints the Fence,” adapted from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain