Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 36 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple "teach, practice, and assess" approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students overall comprehension and test-taking skills.
Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts
Main Idea and Details
Text Features and Visual Information
Description
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Sequence
Problem and Solution
Predict
Vocabulary
Summarize
Fact and Opinion
Make Inferences
Author s Purpose
Text Structure
Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts
Character
Setting
Plot
Theme
Point of View
Predict
Vocabulary
Visual Information
Summarize
Make Inferences
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy. Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students needs.