Gr5 Reading Comprehension Nonfictin

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