Nonfiction (Reading Comprehension, Grade 5)

Nonfiction (Reading Comprehension, Grade 5)

by Evan-Moor Educational Publsihers

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Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!
    
Engage fifth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more. 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 Revised edition!

This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.
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