Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5 Teacher Resource

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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Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed!
Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK-8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.