Whole Book Comprehension, Grade 5
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The 5th Grade Kit Includes
- 8 trade books (4 fiction, 4 nonfiction; 1 copy each)
Fiction
1. Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
2. Embrace the Chicken by Mahtab Narsimhan
3. Taking Sides by Gary Soto
4. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Nonfiction
1. Surviving Volcanoes and Glaciers (Reading Expeditions: On Assignment) by Rebecca L. Johnson
2. Physical: Feats and Failures by Dona Herweck Rice
3. Jane Goodall: Protecting Primates (Reading Expeditions: Science) by Kate Boehm Jerome
4. Behind the Canvas: An Artist's Life by Blanca Apodaca and Michael Serwich- A copy of The Reading Strategies Book 2.0
- Grade-specific teacher's guide
- Access code to online resources (printable student-facing forms, teacher lesson planning materials, videos, and more)
- Sheets of prompt stickers to affix inside the book, alerting students to writing about reading opportunities
- Slipcase for easy storage
Online Resources
- 8 Student Response Forms for writing about reading (one for each book)
- Lesson-by-Lesson Planning Forms with vocabulary, reading strategy selections, and more to simplify prep work
- 8 Goal-Setting Forms to synthesize data from student writing and establish comprehension goals (one for each book)
- Book Summaries
- 4 Rubrics for each trade title to evaluate writing about reading and learn what to expect of reader responses more generally
- Prompt label templates (to set up additional copies of the trade books, printable on standard Avery™ labels)
- How-To Videos covering getting started, planning guidance, and lessons-in-action
