Text Based Writing: Nonfiction Gr 5

Description

EMC Number: 6035

Page Count: 144

EAN: 9781613689981

Table of Contents

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 homeschool 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
 
 
Better Together! Nonfiction Writing and Text-Based Writing: Nonfiction
 
Nonfiction Writing introduces students to the elements of expository, narrative, and persuasive writing, while Text-Based Writing asks students to practice these nonfiction writing forms in text-dependent paragraphs and essays.