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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