Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your fifth-grade students!

Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Realistic fiction
• Fable
• Science fiction
• Folk tale
• Comedy
• Realistic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Poetry

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
• Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
• Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
• Writing prompt activity

Additional teacher resources:

• Comprehensive vocabulary definitions
• "How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
• Literary genres chart
• Literary elements and techniques chart
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The illustrated reading selections in the grade 5 book are:

• Realistic Fiction: "The Job Interviews," Level S
• Fable: "Noah and the Gummy Bears," Level T
• Science Fiction: "Ten Paramount Rules for Vacationing in Outer Space," Level T
• Folk Tale: "Why a Cheetah's Cheeks Are Stained," Level U
• Comedy: "Two Fools," Level U
• Realistic Fiction: "Differences," Level V
• Historical Fiction: "The First Lady in the Woods," Level V
• Poetry: "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Level V
• Historical Fiction: "Memphis in 1968," Level W