Evan-Moor Reading Informational Text, Grade 5

Evan-Moor Reading Informational Text, Grade 5

• Excellent reading series correlated to current CCSS
• Provides rigorous reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for informational texts
• Helps students analyze nonfiction text, access complex text and study academic and content vocabulary
• Includes several leveled text excerpts from science, social studies, biographies and how-tos
• Text based writing prompts encourage finding and using text evidence to write responses and arguments

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.