These texts were specifically chosen by Booksource to support second grade-level instruction based on the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. The range of selected texts includes fables and folktales from different cultures (RL.2.2 and RL.2.9), poetry and storybooks featuring rhyme and rhythm (RL.2.4), stories that lend themselves to studies of character as a story element (RL.2.3), and various informational texts on the same topic (RI.2.9).