Evan-Moor Educational Publishers 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.

• 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.