This hands-on resource book contains 21 reproducible stories of different genre and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The one-and two-page stories vary in reading difficulty from mid-second through beginning-fourth grade levels to meet the range of needs in an average third-grade classroom. Each story consists of one or two reproducible pages of text with fun illustrations and five pages of activities for practicing reading skills.

More Read and Understand Stories and Activities, Grade 2 provides teachers with a comprehensive resource of stories and skills pages to supplement any core reading program. This book features 21 stories, each followed by four or five pages of activities for practicing reading skills. Activities for practicing reading skills include: comprehension vocabulary development phonetic elements word attack skills The types of stories include: fairy tales fables realistic fiction nonfiction poetry Practice activities for every story include: a comprehension page a word meaning page a phonetic element Other skills practiced include: sequencing event compound words possessives syllables homophones following directions This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

The BIGGEST collection of fun-filled activities for reading comprehension! When school is out, learning doesn't have to stop. This big book is filled with engaging activities for 1st graders to get extra reading comprehension practice while having tons of F-U-N too. The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities helps kids learn to really understand what they're reading. Designed to give kids extra practice in key skills for their grade level, this book begins with easy lessons and advances to more challenging readings and exercises to keep your little reader's skills as sharp as their pencils! Inside this reading comprehension book, you'll find: 120 Awesome activities--Fun stories, crosswords, coloring, and more engage kids and make them want to learn. All levels--Kids build comprehension skills as they progress from easy to medium to harder exercises. Key skills--Guide your eager reader retell stories, describe main ideas, compare and contrast, and more with reading comprehension activities that support common core standards. Make extra practice extra fun with each and every reading comprehension activity in this book.

Contains activities based on the United States Dept. of Education's Reading First program.