Help your fifth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity. Additional teacher support includes: Correlations to Common Core State Standards and TEKS for every unit for easy reference, Downloadable homeschool connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement, Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students, and A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit. The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections: Realistic Fiction: The Job Interviews, Modern Fable: Noah and the Gummy Bears, Science Fiction: Ten Paramount Rules for Vacationing in Outer Space, Folk Tale: Why a Cheetahs Cheeks Are Stained, Comedy: Two Fools, Realistic Fiction: Differences, Historical Fiction: The First Lady in the Woods, Poetry: The Walru
