Severe Weather: Severe Weather Activities Reading Comprehension for 2nd Grade

Are you teaching about severe weather, including types of storms and more, but you are having trouble finding kid-friendly, engaging text and weather activities? This comprehensive resource covers severe weather topics, such as thunderstorms, watches and warnings, tornadoes, lightning, flash floods, and hurricanes, and was written specifically for 2nd graders.

This reader will help teachers integrate science into the reading block by focusing on nonfiction reading standards and providing background information on severe weather.

Severe weather reader is an interactive reader meant to teach your students all about the science topic of severe weather and help them prepare for intense storms while allowing students to interact with the text in meaningful ways. Students will focus on asking and answering questions, the main idea, making connections on science topics, vocabulary, text features, author's purpose, and visuals in nonfiction text.

⭐️ Standards Covered:

✏️ RI.1 (Asking and Answering Questions)

✏️ RI. 2 (Main Idea)

✏️ RI. 3 (Connection of scientific ideas)

✏️ RI. 4 (Word meaning)

✏️ RI. 5 (Text Features)

✏️ RI. 6 (Author's Purpose)

✏️ RI. 7 (Illustrations to match the text)

⭐️ Topics Covered in this Reader:

✓ An Introduction to Severe Weather

✓ Watches and Warnings

✓ Thunderstorms and Safety

✓ Tornadoes

✓ Lightning

✓ Flash Flooding

✓ Hurricanes