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Provide your fifth grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support Common Core learning paths. The informational texts cover grade-level content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, main idea and details, and cause and effect. Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including the following:· dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary· close reading activity· reading comprehension activity· vocabulary activity· text structure activity The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment. Additional teacher support includes:· Common Core State Standards correlations provided for every unit for easy reference· Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.· A guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students The informational texts and structures cover: Science Articles· The Value of Weeds Text Structure: Main Idea and Details· Amazing Ants Text Structure: Main Idea and Details· Gravity in Our Solar System Text Structure: Question and AnswerSocial Studies Articles· A Viking Voyage Text Structure: Time Order· Spying During the Revolutionary WarText Structure: Question and Answer· Comparing Education in Two Cultures Text Structure: Compare and ContrastGeography Article· Earth’s Precious Water Text Structure: Cause and EffectBiography Articles· Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer, Writer, and Antislavery Activist Text Structure: Question and Answer· Thurgood Marshall: Champion of Equal Rights Text Structure: Cause and EffectHow-to Article· How to FishText Structure: Time Order