Text-Based Writing, Grade 5

Support 5th-grade students with scaffolded text-based writing practice! Lessons include leveled texts with science, social studies, and health topics, as well as comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and more.

Scaffolded text-based writing and reading comprehension lessons help grade 5 students improve their reading and writing skills!

Lessons include practice with essential nonfiction writing forms:
• Compare and contrast
• Sequence
• Explanatory
• Informative
• Cause and effect
• Opinion
• Argument

12 leveled nonfiction texts range from levels S to W and include:
• Biographies
• Health articles
• Science articles
• Social studies articles

Units provide reading comprehension guidance and pre-writing tasks that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.

Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
• directed reading strategies
• a dictionary page that introduces content words
• close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
• text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
• a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
• a text-dependent writing prompt

Additional resources and features for teachers include:
• Texts across the curriculum that range from reading levels S to W
• A suggested teaching path that helps teachers pace the lesson and provide scaffolded instruction
• A student rubric that focuses on the 6 traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• A vocabulary and definitions list
• A lesson objective and content-area concept for each unit

Revised edition! This resource replaces Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction and includes updates to the content.

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Evan-moor - EMC2455

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Grade: Grade 5

Age: 10 years