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Toolkit Texts: Grades 2-3

Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

SeriesThis product is part of the series: The Comprehension Toolkit Series

ISBN 978-0-325-01194-3 / 0-325-01194-X / 2007 / 80pp / BOOK WITH CD
Imprint: FirstHand
Availability: In Stock
Grade Level: 2nd - 3rd
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"These articles lend themselves to active reading, giving kids a great place to annotate and work out their thinking as they read."
--Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the four-volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice. Each volume provides a library of age-appropriate nonfiction articles in a reproducible format. Personally selected and edited by Harvey and Goudvis, each article is matched to the strategies described in Toolkit series.

The articles in each volume:

  • focus on high-interest topics that help build strong readers while also building background knowledge in numerous content areas
  • give students an opportunity to read and process the kinds of passages typically found on state tests
  • present information in a range of formats typical of nonfiction texts including time lines, sidebars, interviews, and maps and diagrams
  • are supported by teaching strategies that describe how to integrate the articles into your Toolkit instruction.

Plus, the accompanying CD-ROM provides all of the informational texts in English and Spanish.

Select the volumes that will best address your students needs.
Toolkit Texts, Gr. K-1
Toolkit Texts, Gr. 2-3
Toolkit Texts, Gr. 4-5
Toolkit Texts, Gr. 6-7
Save when you order the entire PreK-7 Toolkit Texts Library for one low price.

For a comprehensive overview of the Comprehension Toolkit series including sample lessons, a new Summer School Literacy Guide, free nonfiction short texts in Spanish (K-2), lists of alternative texts, teacher feedback , and presentation materials  visit http://www.comprehensiontoolkit.com

 

The 36 articles (68 pages of student text) in grades 2-3 explore a range of topics of interest to young children including articles about animals, ecology, sports, Native American history and culture, paleontology, and oceans.

  • Shadows
  • Rock Secrets
  • Fossils: Clues to the Dinosaurs
  • Exploring Our Forests: What’s in Your Backpack?
  • Fireflies
  • Penguins in Motion
  • By Land, Sea, and Air
  • Whose Feet are Whose?
  • Animal Ears: Adaptions for Hearing
  • Seeing With Sound
  • Slithering Snakes
  • Where Do I Live?
  • Wings in the Water
  • Breathing Underwater
  • From Egg to Salamander
  • My Puppy Comes Home: Ella’s Puppy Journal
  • Horse Close-Up
  • Flying Again
  • Reading with Your Fingers
  • Animal Helpers
  • The World is an Open Book
  • Crackle, Flash, Boom!
  • Clouds
  • Riding the Rails
  • Sam Goes Trucking
  • On the Move
  • Celebrating Day of the Dead
  • Mexico
  • Flying High
  • Island Chain
  • Pow Wow!
  • You Can Do Yoga
  • Making Art Out of Junk: Meet the Artist
  • Moon Walking
  • Our Solar Neighborhood
  • Aim for the Stars: Shirley Ann Jackson

 

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