Composition & Creative Writing, Vocabulary & Spelling 

Ideal for preparing your second-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as: Compare and contrast, Sequence, Explanatory, Informative, Cause and effect, and Opinion. The 15 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: a picture dictionary with content vocabulary words to help students connect words with meanings, close reading of a leveled nonfiction article, text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding, a graphic organizer to help students organize, information from the article and plan their writing, and a text-dependent writing prompt. - from Amzon