Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your second-grade students!

Choose from ten units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Poetry
• Fairy tale
• Realistic fiction
• Fable
• Folk tale
• Tall tale

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
• Story dictionary with content words and words to know
• Illustrated close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
• Writing prompt activity

Additional teacher resources:

• Comprehensive picture dictionary
• “How to Be a Good Reader” resource page for students
• Literary genres chart
• Literary elements and story structure chart
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The ten illustrated reading selections in the grade 2 book are:

• Poetry: “The Swing,” Level HPoetry: “Water Fun,” Level M
• Fairy Tale: “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” Level I
• Realistic Fiction: “River Rafting,” Level J
• Aesop’s Fable: “The North Wind and the Sun,” Level J
• Folk Tale: “The Rat Princess,” Level J
• Folk Tale: “The Flute,” Level L
• Tall Tale: “Febold Feboldson,” Level L
• Realistic Fiction: “What Ben Franklin Said,” Level L
• Fairy Tale: “Jackie and the Beanstalk,” Level M

Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.