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:

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

These Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1 in Black, White are ideal for classroom learning and instruction.