Prepare your students to succeed on state tests! Test-prep made easy! Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 5 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills.

Use Evan-Moor's grade 5 paired text units to provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Units contain two selections that are focused around an essential question.

Each selection includes:

vocabulary development in context an oral close reading discussion comprehension questions a writing prompt

The unit assessment includes discussion of the topic, texts, and essential question, as well as a pre-writing graphic organizer and culminating writing prompt.

Additional features:

student objectives topic introductions lesson plans

Grade 5 paired text social studies units:

Taking Sides: "One Land, Two Views" Level T "The Troll and the Billy Goats Gruff" Level S

Those Who Moved Us Forward: "Newspaper Archives" Level U "Clara Brown: Angel of the Rockies" Level T

A View from All Sides: "An Unsettling Argument" Level V "No Room at the Inn" Level U

Unsung Heroes: "Deborah Samson, Soldier of the Revolution" Level T "Two Poems from the Underground Railroad" Level W

Grade 5 paired text science units:

Amusement in the Air: "How to Make a Kite" Level T "Airborne" Level T

Using Resources Wisely: "Hydroelectricity" Level U "True Riches" Level T

Solving Mysteries of the Past: "Otzi: A Window to the Past" Level V "Oma Frieda's Trunk" Level S

Becoming Ourselves: "Nature versus Nurture" Level W "Dear Diary" Level U

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