Reading Informational Texts, Book II: Nonfiction Passages and Exercises Based on the Common Core State Standards (Student Edition)

Note: This is a student edition and does not contain the breadth of material found in the teacher's editions, which are sold exclusively through the publisher.Take Rigorous, Standards-Based Nonfiction Study to a Higher Level
The Reading Informational Texts series eliminates the need for hours of outside research and provides you with exactly what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) require.
Each student workbook contains a variety of reading passages selected using CCSS-designated methods, accompanied by brief background materials, margin notes, short-answer and essay questions, and contextually defined vocabulary words.
Using the teacher's edition, available through the publisher, you can guide your students through a close reading of each work and fulfill the standards for reading: informational text.Passages include:

• Mark Twain: Taming the Bicycle
• Barack Obama: 2009 Inaugural Address
• Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 1941 State of the Union Address
• US Supreme Court: Majority Opinion in the Case of Gideon v. Wainwright