Product Review

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, and text structure activity. The 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, and A guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students.