Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5 Teacher Resource

By Evan-Moor Educational Publsihers

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

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645143384
• ISBN13: 9781645143383
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 6