Provide your fifth grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support Common Core learning paths.The informational texts cover grade-level content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, main idea and details, and cause and effect.Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including the following: dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary close reading activity reading comprehension activity vocabulary activity text structure activityThe unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.Additional teacher support includes: Common Core State Standards correlations provided for every unit for easy reference Downloadable homeschool connection activities and projects to extend learning at home. A guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for studentsThe informational texts and structures cover:Science ArticlesThe Value of WeedsText Structure: Main Idea and DetailsAmazing AntsText Structure: Main Idea and DetailsGravity in Our Solar SystemText Structure: Question and AnswerSocial Studies ArticlesA Viking VoyageText Structure: Time OrderSpying During the Revolutionary WarText Structure: Question and AnswerComparing Education in Two CulturesText Structure: Compare and ContrastGeography ArticleEarths Precious WaterText Structure: Cause and EffectBiography ArticlesBenjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery ActivistText Structure: Question and AnswerThurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal RightsText Structure: Cause and EffectHow-to ArticleHow to FishText Structure: Time Order
