Reading Informational Text, Grade 5 Teacher Resource

By Evan-Moor Educational Publishing

Provide your fifth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support current standards learning paths

The informational texts cover 5th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:

dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary close reading activity reading comprehension activity vocabulary activity text structure activity

The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.

Additional teacher support includes:

Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home. Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

The informational texts and structures for 5th grade cover:

Science Articles: The Value of Weeds (Main Idea and Details); Amazing Ants (Main Idea and Details); Gravity in Our Solar System (Question and Answer)

Social Studies Articles: A Viking Voyage (Time Order); Spying During the Revolutionary War (Question and Answer); Comparing Education in Two Cultures (Compare and Contrast)

Geography Article: Earth's Precious Water (Cause and Effect)

Biography Articles: Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist (Question and Answer); Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights (Cause and Effect)

How-to Article: How to Fish (Time Order)

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: 1613689934
• ISBN13: 9781613689936
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 6