RN Reading: Nonfiction
Learning Outcome
2.RN.1 Read and comprehend a variety of nonfiction within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 2-3. By the end of grade 2, students interact with texts proficiently and independently at the low end of the range and with scaffolding as needed at the high end.
Key Ideas and Textual Support
2.RN.2.1 Ask and answer questions about the main idea and supporting facts and details in a text to confirm understanding.
2.RN.2.2 Identify the main idea of a multiparagraph text and the topic of each paragraph.
2.RN.2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, and steps in a process or procedure in a text.
Structural Elements and Organization
2.RN.3.1 Use various text features (e.g., table of contents, index, headings, captions) to locate key facts or information and explain how they contribute to and clarify a text.
2.RN.3.2 Identify how a nonfiction text can be structured to compare and contrast, to describe a procedure, and to explain a cause and effect relationship.
2.RN.3.3 Identify what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe in the text.
Synthesis and Connection of Ideas
2.RN.4.1 Describe how an author uses facts to support specific points in a text.
2.RN.4.2 Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.