Implement balanced literacy in your grade 2 classroom! This comprehensive set includes everything that teachers need to transition towards a balanced literacy framework in their classrooms. The fifteen titles featured in this set include a wide range of informational texts covering math, science, and social studies topics. The high-interest content will engage students in learning as they develop their literacy skills. This set includes five copies of each of the fifteen titles, and one copy of Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy. The invaluable classroom resource includes easy-to-implement strategies to nurture reading and writing skills through Shared/Guided/Independent Reading and Writing activities. It also provides in-depth lessons plans that take away the guesswork out of what is needed to implement the Balanced Literacy approach. Titles in this set include: What Is in the Attic?; Traveling on a Train; The Fort; Farmers Market; Cleaning Our School; You Can Count on Me!; Coming to America; Mapping Our World; Money and Trade in Our Nation; Interdependence of Living Things; Ecosystems; Forces; Motion; Landforms; Weathering and Erosion.