Evan-Moor Reading Informational Text, Grade 5 Teacher Resource

<p><strong>Provide your fifth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support current standards learning paths!</strong></p> <p>The informational texts cover 5th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.</p> <p><strong>What's Inside:</strong><br> Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:</p> <ul><li>dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary</li><li>close reading activity</li><li>reading comprehension activity</li><li>vocabulary activity</li><li>text structure activity</li></ul> <p>The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.</p> <p><strong>Additional teacher support includes:</strong></p> <ul><li>Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference</li><li>Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.</li><li>Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students</li></ul> <p><strong>The informational texts and structures for 5th grade cover:</strong></p> <p><strong>Science Articles: </strong><em>The Value of Weeds </em>(Main Idea and Details); Amazing Ants (Main Idea and Details); <em>Gravity in Our Solar System </em>(Question and Answer)</p> <p><strong>Social Studies Articles:</strong> <em>A Viking Voyage </em>(Time Order); <em>Spying During the Revolutionary War </em>(Question and Answer); <em>Comparing Education in Two Cultures </em>(Compare and Contrast)</p> <p><strong>Geography Article:</strong> <em>Earth's Precious Water </em>(Cause and Effect)</p> <p><strong>Biography Articles:</strong> <em>Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist </em>(Question and Answer); <em>Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights </em>(Cause and Effect)</p> <p><strong>How-to Article:</strong> <em>How to Fish </em>(Time Order)</p> <p>This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.</p> <p><strong>About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers</strong></p><p><em>Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed!</em> 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.</p>

• Evan-Moor Product Number 3205
• 128 reproducible pages
• Answer key included