Text-Based Writing, Grade 5
Improve grade 5 students' reading and writing skills! Lessons include nonfiction writing forms like comparison, sequencing, explanations, information, cause and effect, opinions, and arguments. 12 leveled texts from levels S to W cover biographies, health, science, and social studies. Units guide reading comprehension and pre-writing tasks for text-dependent prompts.
Each unit includes directed reading strategies, a dictionary page with content words, close reading of a nonfiction article, comprehension questions, a graphic organizer for planning, and a text-dependent writing prompt.
Teacher resources include texts across the curriculum, a suggested teaching path, a student rubric for the 6 traits of writing, a vocabulary list, and a lesson objective for each unit.
Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes content updates.
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Scaffolded Text-Based Writing and Reading Comprehension Lessons
Help grade 5 students improve their reading and writing skills!
Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:
- Compare and contrast
- Sequence
- Explanatory
- Informative
- Cause and effect
- Opinion
- Argument
12 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels S to W and include:
- Biographies
- Health articles
- Science articles
- Social studies articles
Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
- Directed reading strategies
- A dictionary page that introduces content words
- Close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
- Text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
- A graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
- A text-dependent writing prompt
Additional resources and features for teachers include:
- Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels S to W
- A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction
- A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
- A vocabulary and definitions list
- A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit
Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content.
Information
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 5
Brand: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
UPC: 9781645143550
