Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 5

Reading comprehension practice boosts fifth-grade students’ competencies across the curriculum. Includes 8 paired text units with science, social studies, and civics topics. Each unit has an essential question and vocabulary, reading, and writing activities that help students examine texts and engage in discussions. Also includes unit assessments.

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 with your fifth-grade students.

These grade 5 paired text units provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Each unit contains two thematically related 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
• an answer key

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

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

Reading/Language Arts : Comprehension

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Grade: Grade 5

Age: 10 years