Product Description
Ideal for preparing your fifth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as:
- · Argument
- · Cause and effect
- · Compare and contrast
- · Explanatory
- · Opinion
- · Sequence
The 12 units provide activities 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:
- · 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
- · a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay
Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
- · Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
- · Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
- · The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
- · The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!
The fifth grade content-area topics fall under these categories:
- · Biographies
- · Health articles
- · How-to articles
- · Science articles
- · Social studies articles
Additional Information
Author | No |
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Publisher | Evan Moor |
Publication Date | 2015 |
Edition | No |
Pages | 144 |
ISBN | No |
ISBN13 | 9781613689981 |