● For your Common Core curriculum.
● Increase reading comprehension skills with motivating high-interest articles.
● Contains numerous comprehension skills including: comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions, identifying mood, summarizing, and recognizing literary styles.
● Detailed graphic organizers aid students’ comprehension.
● Allows for daily practice, assists students to become competent readers, and encourages nonfiction reading in different content areas.
● 144 pages.
● Click Here for Sample CCSS Product Alignment ELA Grade 5 RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic, summarize the text.
● RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
● RL.5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
● RI.5.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
● RI.5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
● RF.5.3a Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.
● RF.5.4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
● RF.5.4b Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
● W.5.3d Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
● W.5.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
● (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3.) W.5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
● (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 5) W.5.7 Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
● W.5.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources, summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
● W.5.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
● L.5.1d Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
● L.5.3b Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.
● L.5.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
● L.5.5a Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.