Nonfiction Reading Comprehension 5- After reading brief nonfiction passages about science, geography, or history topics, students answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to build seven essential comprehension skills.
The activities target standards in these areas:
main idea
drawing conclusions/making inferences
context clues
ideas and opinions as personal responses to reading
Paperback. 48 pages. Reproducible.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Meeting Standards and Benchmarks
How to Use this Book
Achievement Graph
Practice Passages
The Inventions of Ancient China
Unseen Volcanoes Build New Land
Science Passages
Changing with the Environment
Niagara Falls: A Changing Natural Wonder
The Amazing World Beneath Our Feet
Your Remarkable Body
Wild Weather
A Man Concerned with Safety
Geography Passages
Nature's Recycling
El Niño Brings Weird Weather
Staying in Balance
Changing the Chinchilla
The Mighty Redwood
We Need Wetlands
History Passages
Communicating Then and Now
Visiting the Moon
World War II Submarines
The Sky's the Limit
Working for the Right to Work
Sacagawea Helped Explore America
Answer Key
Paired Passages
for grade 5 features compelling material that students compare and contrast so that they can integrate knowledge and ideas across parallel passages. Designed to keep young minds engaged, this series strengthens comprehension skills and students' ability to think critically.
Paperback. 95 pages.
Paired Passages
for grade 5 offers pairs of nonfiction and fiction passages for students to compare and contrast. Aligned to state standards, students will read high-interest passages about topics such as Babe Ruth, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, a Robert Frost poem, and more.
Help your students meet rigorous college- and career-ready expectations by improving reading comprehension skills. Paired Passages helps students meet and exceed reading standards by teaching them to compare and contrast:
fiction with nonfiction
fiction with fiction
nonfiction with nonfiction
When students finish reading a pair of passages, they will rely on the text to complete the accompanying questions and activities.
With over 100 pages of varied reading comprehension activities, Reading Comprehension 5
allows a child to practice a wide variety of comprehension skills. Six large units with multiple exercises and challenges teach and drill such skills as vocabulary, main idea, fact and opinion, recognizing details, sequencing, following directions, context clues, Venn diagrams and adapting prior knowledge.
Paperback. 128 pages.
Skill Builders
are great tools for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the next grade level. A variety of fun and challenging activities provides students with practice and helps introduce basic skills to new learners. This full-color workbook contains appropriate passages and exercises based on national standards for third grade to help ensure that children master reading comprehension skills before progressing. Skill Builders
combines entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing fun and effective. The compact 6" x 9" size makes this book perfect for school, at home, or on the go. It features 80 perforated, reproducible pages and an answer key.
