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 is also great for sub plans in a pinch.

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

What Teachers Are Saying:

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This was a wonderful resource! We did this as an extension during our severe weather unit. The students really enjoyed it!

— Rebecca R

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This was exactly what I was looking for! I love using booklet to teach new ideas. I also love that we could use it during our reading block.

— Jennifer T.

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I had a pair of very advanced boys in first grade that loved extreme disaster books, lol. This was a great activity for them to do together to challenge themselves. Super helpful and engaging resource -- thank you!
— Living Learning

How to Use this Reader:

Shared Reading

Small-Group Work

Centers

Homework

Partner Reading

Sub Work

An assessment sheet is also attached with a general rubric for standards-based assessments provided.

Parts of the book have the language of an informational text {factual and all about}. If you're currently working on an informational writing unit of study, this little text is a nice connection. Idea: Students can research additional information and add "Wow Facts" or "Did You Know" bubbles to certain pages in the book.

Directions: Cut the pages in half, assemble, and staple. Allow some time for coloring and illustrating. Use during shared reading or small group reading instruction. Teach the key vocabulary and let the children write definitions in their own words and/or draw pictures to show the meaning of the words. Also, allow students to ask and answer questions about the text. Reread individually or in pairs.