Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 5 students improve their reading and writing skills
Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:
Compare and contrastSequenceExplanatoryInformativeCause and effectOpinionArgumentEach unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
directed reading strategiesa dictionary page that introduces content wordsclose reading of a leveled nonfiction articletext-dependent comprehension questions to support understandinga graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writinga text-dependent writing prompt