Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 5 Teacher Resource

Prepare your students to succeed on state tests! Test-prep made easy! Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 5 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills.

Use Evan-Moor's grade 5 paired text units to provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Units contain two selections that are focused around an essential question.

Each selection includes:

• vocabulary development in context
• an oral close reading discussion
• comprehension questions
• a writing prompt

The unit assessment includes discussion of the topic, texts, and essential question, as well as a pre-writing graphic organizer and culminating writing prompt.

Additional features:

• student objectives
• topic introductions
• lesson plans

Grade 5 paired text social studies units:

Taking Sides:
"One Land, Two Views" Level T
"The Troll and the Billy Goats Gruff" Level S

Those Who Moved Us Forward:
"Newspaper Archives" Level U
"Clara Brown: Angel of the Rockies" Level T

A View from All Sides:
"An Unsettling Argument" Level V
"No Room at the Inn" Level U

Unsung Heroes:
"Deborah Samson, Soldier of the Revolution" Level T
"Two Poems from the Underground Railroad" Level W

Grade 5 paired text science units:

Amusement in the Air:
"How to Make a Kite" Level T
"Airborne" Level T

Using Resources Wisely:
"Hydroelectricity" Level U
"True Riches" Level T

Solving Mysteries of the Past:
"Otzi: A Window to the Past" Level V
"Oma Frieda's Trunk" Level S

Becoming Ourselves:
"Nature versus Nurture" Level W
"Dear Diary" Level U

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