Nonfiction Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans for 2nd Grade Science Integration

Nonfiction plans that integrate science have never been easier to write with this Nonfiction Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plan Unit for 2nd Grade. Go deeper into informational text or nonfiction with a focus on asking and answering questions, main idea, cause and effect, text features, vocabulary, author's purpose, visuals make meaning, supporting details, and compare and contrast. Lesson plans, read-aloud activities, and reading response printables are included.

The teacher reads a book through the week and models how to ask questions and answer text-based questions, how to determine the main idea, how to determine the author's purpose, monitor comprehension, and so much more. Essentially students are working to better understand and utilize what they are reading and hearing. This can be used as a shared reading, an interactive read-aloud, or a close reading activity.

Nonfiction unit focusing on informational text standards is print and digital which makes it perfect for distance learning, hybrid learning, or face-to-face learning. This standards-based unit focuses on the life cycles of plants, animals, and the human body integrated into the Reading Workshop.

⭐️ Your students will focus on asking and answering questions in nonfiction text, the main idea, making connections between a series of science concepts, vocabulary, text features, author's purpose, evidence to support the author's point, and comparing and contrasting nonfiction text.

⭐️ Standards and skills focused on in this unit:

Reading and Discussion Tasks including:

RI.1 Asking Questions (text-based)

RI. 2 Main Idea

RI. 3 Connections between series of science concepts

RI. 4 Vocabulary

RI. 5 Text Features

RI. 6 Author's Purpose

RI.7. Images Supporting Text

RI.8 Evidence to support Author's Purpose

RI.9 Comparing and Contrasting Nonfiction Text

Inferring

Summarizing

Visualization

Comparing/Contrasting

Purpose

Working through informational text strategies

Text Features

Vocabulary Work

Writing Tasks:

Writing about reading (answering text-based questions and retelling)

National Geographic Science is referred to in this unit and a list of resources is provided, yet any books on life cycles and the body will work with this unit.