Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your fifth-grade students!
Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all!
- Realistic fiction
- Fable
- Science fiction
- Folk tale
- Comedy
- Realistic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Poetry
Each unit includes:
- Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
- One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
- Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
- Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
- Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
- Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
- Writing prompt activity
Additional teacher resources:
- Comprehensive vocabulary definitions
- "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
- Literary genres chart
- Literary elements and techniques chart
- Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure
The illustrated reading selections in the grade 5 book are:
- Realistic Fiction: "The Job Interviews," Level S
- Fable: "Noah and the Gummy Bears," Level T
- Science Fiction: "Ten Paramount Rules for Vacationing in Outer Space," Level T
- Folk Tale: "Why a Cheetah's Cheeks Are Stained," Level U
- Comedy: "Two Fools," Level U
- Realistic Fiction: "Differences," Level V
- Historical Fiction: "The First Lady in the Woods," Level V
- Poetry: "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Level V
- Historical Fiction: "Memphis in 1968," Level W
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