Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 5

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage fifth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include nine fiction genres, reading selections and dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing prompt activities.

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

Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.