Evidence-based Reading, Grade 2

Jacket Description/Back: A key shift in instruction, called for by the Common Core and college and career readiness standards, is the focus on a student's ability to use evidence from texts to answer inference-based questions. Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading provides students with the practice they need to closely and carefully read both literary and informational texts to support comprehension and critical thinking skills. Also included in this book is a Common Core alignment chart, a rubric for assessing reading comprehension, and an answer key for easy planning and implementation. Publisher Marketing: Evidence-Based Reading for grade 2 offers 64 pages of reading practice. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and includes a reading comprehension rubric, a standards alignment chart, and pages of reading passages with evidence-based questions to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful answers. Each question is designed so that students learn to support their answers with evidence from the text. A variety of literature and informational passages are included to engage learners in a range of texts. The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading series for students in kindergarten to grade 5 emphasizes close reading by requiring students to answer text-dependent questions in both literary and informational texts. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are the Common Core State Standards and the teaching of evidence-based reading.