Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5
Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fifth-grade students with our comprehensive resource! Choose from 10 units covering various text structures and topics, including science, social studies, geography, biography, and how-to guides. Each unit includes teacher support pages, a dictionary, close-reading and comprehension activities, an oral close-reading activity, text structure analysis, and a writing activity. Additional resources include overview articles, writing prompts, and an answer key.
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Enhance the reading comprehension skills and understanding of nonfiction text structures of your fifth-grade students with this comprehensive teaching resource! Select from 10 units covering a range of text structures and topics, or incorporate them all into your curriculum:
- Text structures include:
- Question and answer
- Main idea and details
- Cause and effect
- Compare and contrast
- Time order
The grade 5 book features nonfiction texts on 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 guiding questions
- 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
This revised edition replaces Reading Informational Text and features updates to the content, ensuring your teaching materials are current and effective.
Information
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 5
Brand: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
UPC: 9781645143383
