Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction, Grade 5

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 answerMain idea and detailsCause and effectCompare and contrastTime 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 objectiveA dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabularyA close-reading activityA comprehension and vocabulary activityAn oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussionA text structure analysis activityA culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:

Overview article and writing prompts chartFive elements of nonfiction text chartFive structures of nonfiction textAn answer key

About Evan-Moor

A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

• 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