A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 5th grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This greek mythology activity helps 3rd to 5th grade students match characters, words and meanings to learn words that come from old Greek stories. Answer key included.
Using Vocabulary Jeopardy Activity, students determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text to build their use of vocabulary.
This identifying literary elements activity has students sort 16 element cards into poem, drama, and prose. Made for 3rd to 5th grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using Contributions to the Text Activity, students explain howthe information contributes to an understanding of the text in which itappears.
Using these Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity, students map out the important details in a text to show their thinking while building reading comprehension.
Using RI.5.7 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating theability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
Using RL.5.7 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.
A Florida FAST 5th grade reading practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 13 benchmarks, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
A NJSLA-A 5th grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 20 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
Headings, captions and clues galore
Fifth graders already know headings and captions. Now they use text features to find answers fast and to understand harder ideas. They read maps, diagrams, timelines, sidebars and charts, and explain how each one adds to the words. They compare information from a graph and a paragraph, and use bold words and the glossary to learn new vocabulary. The click comes when kids skim the features first and suddenly the whole article makes sense.
Text features are tools for thinking. These moves get kids using them, not just naming them.
Before reading a science article, think aloud through the title, headings, pictures and captions. Say what you predict you will learn. Then kids do a two-minute preview with a partner on the next article.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withRI.5.7 Fifth Grade Common Core LessonCommon Core LessonsOpen it →Kids fill a thinking map with each feature in the article and what it tells them. Seeing it all on one page shows how features and text work together.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withThinking Maps for Reading Journeys ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Ask a quick question and kids race to find the answer using only the text features. Then they say which feature helped. Fast retrieval rounds build the habit of using features while reading.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withContributions to the Text ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Fifth graders love a challenge. These ideas turn text features into a game.
ActivitiesTeams answer vocabulary questions in a game show format using words from the glossary and bold print.
Open Vocabulary Jeopardy Activity →
Common Core LessonsKids look at how pictures and visual elements add meaning to a story and share what they notice.
Open RL.5.7 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson →
ActivitiesGrab a stack of magazines and hunt for a caption, a chart, a map and a sidebar in ten minutes.
Open Greek Mythology Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 5th Grade ELA Practice Test Workbook, Greek Mythology Activity and Vocabulary Jeopardy Activity.
They are the parts of a text beyond the main words, like headings, captions, diagrams, maps, charts, timelines, bold words and glossaries. Fifth graders use them to find and understand information.
They help readers preview, locate facts quickly and understand hard ideas. A diagram or chart often explains what a paragraph cannot.
Model a preview of the features before reading, then have kids explain what each feature adds. Practice with real articles from science and social studies.
Text features are the tools on the page, like headings and maps. Text structure is how the writing is organized, like cause and effect or compare and contrast.
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