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Self-Awareness Reading Comprehension Passages — Grade 2

Grade 2 · Self-Awareness · Reading Comprehension

When the dog next door barks suddenly through the fence, Ilka shouts that she is mad.

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Grade: 2
What you get: 10 passages at F&P levels K–M in ten text types34 pages
Type: Reading Comprehension
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Self-Awareness

About this resource

When the dog next door barks suddenly through the fence, Ilka shouts that she is mad. These free self-awareness reading comprehension passages give Grade 2 readers ten texts at F&P levels K–M, one for each part of Self-Awareness: naming feelings, body signals, strengths, self-talk, mistakes, values and triggers. The full set is free with a free account (no card needed), and it builds SEL inside your literacy time.

What students practice

Stopping to find the feeling word that truly fits
Noticing a body signal and asking what it means
Noticing and naming your own strengths
Feeling sure of who you are and where you come from
Making your own kind words to say to yourself
Answering multiple-choice and written-response questions about what they read

What’s inside

10passages at F&P levels K–M in ten text types, including a fable, a school news feature and a first-person reflection

5multiple-choice questions per passage

2open-ended questions per passage that call for written answers

34pages

Answer key for the multiple-choice questions

A look inside

Why Do We Get Goosebumps?Explains that tiny muscles in the skin pull hairs up into goosebumps when we feel cold, and sometimes when a song or a surprise gives us a big feeling.

Paavo’s Hero Wears a Bus Driver’s CapOn hero dress-up day, Paavo comes as his grandma, a bus driver, while others wear capes.

Our Bead Bracelets Rolled AwayThe class news reports that second graders strung bead bracelets for the spring fair so fast they forgot to knot the ends, and beads rolled everywhere.

I Wonder Why I Did That!: Answers kids’ questions about wondering about their own day, like “Why did I like that?” and “What surprised me?”, and shows how wondering helps you know yourself.

Not Ready to Show YetGorka feels hot and stompy whenever someone sees his drawing before it is finished.

How to use these self-awareness reading passages in Grade 2

Small reading groups at levels K–M, working through the multiple-choice questions together

A short SEL lessonRead “The Bark Behind the Fence” aloud and talk it through together

Independent practice or homework, checked later with the answer key

Written responseStudents answer the two open-ended questions after a passage such as “Senka’s Saturday Storybooks”

Grade fit

Passages run from about 195 to 218 words, so second graders can finish one in a single sitting, and the situations come straight from home, recess and the classroom. Levels climb from K to M across the set.

Digital version

With the interactive digital version, you share one link and students read each passage and answer the questions on any device, with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.