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Reading Comprehension Fundamentals: Grade 5
| Item #: | 006448 |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9781629384641 |
| Grades: | 5 |
Product Description:
Contains exercises in identifying key vocabulary terms, the author's purpose and plot, comparing and contrasting, summarizing and predicting, making inferences and sequencing, recognizing point of view and characters, hyperbole, and genres such as science fiction and comedy.
Publisher Description:
Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach!Reading Comprehension Fundamentalsprovides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 36 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.
The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple "teach, practice, and assess" approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.
| Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts | Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts |
| Main Idea and Details | Character |
| Text Features and Visual Information | Setting |
| Description | Plot |
| Cause and Effect | Theme |
| Compare and Contrast | Point of View |
| Sequence | Predict |
| Problem and Solution | Vocabulary |
| Predict | Visual Information |
| Vocabulary | Summarize |
| Summarize | Make Inferences |
| Fact and Opinion | Cause and Effect |
| Make Inferences | Compare and Contrast |
| Author's Purpose | Foreshadowing |
| Text Structure | Hyperbole |
Nonfiction genre studies include expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy.
UseReading Comprehension Fundamentalsas a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.
Each of the six-volumes in this reading comprehension series by Evan-Moor provides foundational skills that students can use to improve their reading strategies, literary analysis skills, and genre recognition abilities. The workbooks contain approximately 36 units, and each of them include fiction or non-fiction text material that emphasizes one fundamental reading skill, as well as practice in identifying the structure or genre of the literary selection. This series contains black and white illustrations, and can be used as a supplement to a core reading program, as reinforcement drill, or as test-prep exercises. Workbooks also contain answer keys in the back of each volume, and nice large print that is easy to read. 176 pgs, pb. ~ Mike
