Provide your fifth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support current standards learning paths!
The informational texts cover 5th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.
What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:
- dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
- close reading activity
- reading comprehension activity
- vocabulary activity
- text structure activity
The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.
Additional teacher support includes:
- Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference
- Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.
- Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students
The informational texts and structures for 5th grade cover:
Science Articles: The Value of Weeds (Main Idea and Details); Amazing Ants (Main Idea and Details); Gravity in Our Solar System (Question and Answer)
Social Studies Articles: A Viking Voyage (Time Order); Spying During the Revolutionary War (Question and Answer); Comparing Education in Two Cultures (Compare and Contrast)
Geography Article: Earth's Precious Water (Cause and Effect)
Biography Articles: Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist (Question and Answer); Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights (Cause and Effect)
How-to Article: How to Fish (Time Order)
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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