5th Grade

Resources to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing Aligned with Common Core Standards

One-Page Readings

These passages are listed at their readability level according to the Fry formula.
However, you may want to use a reading from an earlier grade level because the
formula does not factor in conceptual difficulty of a text.

American Explorers infer and support the main idea of a passage

Animal Studies infer and support the main idea of a passage

Better Living in Chicago: Jane Addams restate a situation presented in text; write to communicate about a situation

Chicago Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Fire infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I can infer the author's purpose

Election Choices infer and support the main idea of a passage

From Many Places evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Learn about Ethiopia  infer and support the main idea of a passage

George Washington Carver

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

How Did People Solve a Problem?

How Have Students Made Community Progress? analyze a problem and solution in a text, identify and support the main idea 

Penguins

Prairie Keepers analyze information in a nonfiction text

Prairie Keepers with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Public Transportation evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Read to Learn about City Systems evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Read to Learn about Elections evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

The Recycle Center evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Reversing the Chicago River identify cause-effect relations and infer predictions

Seasons on the Prairie analyze information in a nonfiction text

Seasons on the Prairie with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions

Valley Forgeinfer and support the main idea of a passage

Who Am I sequence events, infer  motive, and write about nonfiction

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