Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage fifth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.

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

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content.

Key Features:

• Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!
• Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fifth-grade students!
• Contains nonfiction texts that include a variety of content-area topics.
• Includes teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.
• Includes an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.

These Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5 in Black, White are ideal for classroom learning and instruction.