Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage fifth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.

Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your fifth-grade students!

Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!

Text structures include:
• Question and answer
• Main idea and details
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Time order

Nonfiction texts in the grade 5 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:
• "The Value of Weeds" Level S
• "Amazing Ants" Level T
• "Gravity in Our Solar System" Level V

Social Studies:
• "A Viking Voyage" Level U
• "Spying During the Revolutionary War" Level V
• "Comparing Education in Two Cultures" Level W

Geography:
• "Earth's Precious Water" Level U

Biography:
• "Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist" Level T
• "Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights" Level V

How-to:
• "How to Fish" Level U

Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
• A close-reading activity
• A comprehension and vocabulary activity
• An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• A text structure analysis activity
• A culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:
• Overview article and writing prompts chart
• Five elements of nonfiction text chart
• Five structures of nonfiction text
• An answer key

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