Reading Literary Text, Grade 5 - Teacher's Edition, Print

Help your fifth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills!
 
Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as poetry, comedy, realistic fiction, and science fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Dictionary page to introduce content and academic vocabulary
• Close reading activity and close reading discussion
• Learn-and-apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and
  literary analysis
• Reading comprehension activity
• Literary response writing activity

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support
  the unit

The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Realistic Fiction: “The Job Interviews”
• Modern Fable: “Noah and the Gummy Bears”
• Science Fiction: “Ten Paramount Rules for Vacationing in Outer Space”
• Folk Tale: “Why a Cheetah’s Cheeks Are Stained”
• Comedy: “Two Fools”
• Realistic Fiction: “Differences”
• Historical Fiction: “The First Lady in the Woods”
• Poetry: “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” by Lewis Carroll
• Historical Fiction: “Memphis in 1968”