Overview
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fifth-grade students!
Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!
Text structures include:
- Question and answer
- Main idea and details
- Cause and effect
- Compare and contrast
- Time order
Nonfiction texts in the grade 5 book include a variety of content-area topics:
Science:
- "The Value of Weeds" Level S
- "Amazing Ants" Level T
- "Gravity in Our Solar System" Level V
Social Studies:
- "A Viking Voyage" Level U
- "Spying During the Revolutionary War" Level V
- "Comparing Education in Two Cultures" Level W
Geography:
- "Earth’s Precious Water" Level U
Biography:
- "Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist" Level T
- "Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights" Level V
How-to:
- "How to Fish" Level U
Each unit includes:
- Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
- A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
- A close-reading activity
- A comprehension and vocabulary activity
- An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
- A text structure analysis activity
- A culminating text-based writing activity
Additional teacher resources:
- Overview article and writing prompts chart
- Five elements of nonfiction text chart
- Five structures of nonfiction text
- An answer key
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