Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 5

By Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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 Include:

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 Include:

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.

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162938464X
• ISBN13: 9781629384641
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 10 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 6