Nystrom Young Citizens Grade 2 Connect

The grade-specific texts use comic-style storytelling that builds from the foundational skills. 30 Student Books are included with the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: How Do Families Change?
• Chapter 2: How Are You Part of the School Community?
• Chapter 3: What Brings Changes to a Neighborhood
• Chapter 4: How Does a Town Grow?
• Chapter 5: What Does It Take To Make a State?
• Chapter 6: What Makes Us the United States?
• Chapter 7: How Do People Around the World Connect?

The Leveled Student Readers are grade specific, and help to meet student needs with the use of both narrative and nonfiction texts. Young Citizens Grade 2 includes 7 unique titles in 4 different reading levels, 8 copies each, for a total of 224 Leveled Student Readers.Titles include:

• The Late Twentieth Century: What Was Life Like?
• Exploring Egypt: What’s Life Like?
• Household Budget: How Do You Make a Money Plan?
• Colonial America: What Was Life Like?
• What is Climate? And How Does it Affect Our Lives?
• Justice for All: How Did Thurgood Marshall and Sonia Sotomayor Change America?
• Island of Many Wonders: What Will We See in New Guinea?

This set of information cards features rigorous content involving communities, states, and the country, and feature engaging student activities. Each card corresponds with a chapter from the Student Reader. There are 8 variations of the cards (one for each chapter), 6 variations of each card, for a total of 48.

Laminated wet-erase maps and globes let students get hands-on with social studies. Included are:

• 30 Markale Community Maps
• 30 Markable U.S. & World Desk Maps
• 6 Markable 3-D Raised Relief Maps
• 6 Markable Activity Globes
• Wide-tip, wet-erase markers

The online learning platform provides access to all the books and activity cards in the program, plus the platform features engaging activities, auto-graded assessments, and additional materials that are easy to access anywhere with an available internet connection.

Teacher and class access are included.

The teacher’s guide is a powerful tool for teachers that outlines each lesson and features teacher tips, activity sheets, assessments, vocabulary guides, letters home, plus much more.