Reading, Grade 2

Jacket Description/Back: Standards-Based Connections Reading is the perfect tool for helping students master Common Core comprehension skills. The easy-to-use format provides a skill assessment to determine learning gaps and then offers individualized remediation. The skill assessment analysis correlates to focused practice pages. The practice pages are perfect for targeting and strengthening specific areas of need for individual students. Strategies addressed include summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. Clearly labeled pages allow for easy and efficient planning and documentation. Each page includes I Can statements to encourage self-assessment and reflection!Publisher Marketing: Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!