Strategies That Work!: Comprehension Practice Grade 5

by Teacher Created Resources, Lorin E. Klistoff (Editor)

Overview

Develop reading comprehension skills with strategies like finding facts, identifying main ideas, drawing conclusions, following directions, and more. Each reproducible page includes literary or factual text, followed by multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, or other types of questions. The activities are aligned with national standards and benchmarks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420680454
Publisher:	Teacher Created Resources, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Series:	Strategies That Work! Comprehension Prac
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	10 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book     3
Standards (reference chart)     5
Finding Facts
Introduction     6
Strange Mysteries     7
Tell Me How     8
The Portland Fairy Penguins     9
The Sylvia Mystery     10
What a Waste!     11
Finding the Main Idea
Introduction     12
Time Capsule     13
Battlers of the Great Depression     14
Made for Australia     15
Saving Wildlife     16
My Neighbors at Nagin     17
Making Inferences
Introduction     18
The Incredible Experience of Megan Kingsley     19
The Secret of Yesterday Hills     20
Own Up!     21
Using Context Clues
Introduction     22
Not Zackly     23
Show Off     24
That Proverbial Cat     25
Drawing Conclusions
Introduction     26
Own Up!     27
Stevie Comes to Stay     28
Masakuni and the Bees     29
Noting Details
Introduction     30
Time Capsule     31
The Secret of Yesterday Hills     32
Rainforests     33
Following Directions
Introduction     34
Puppets     35
What's Cooking? A Children's Guide to Food from Other Lands     36
The Age of Dinosaurs in Australia     37
Understanding Questions
Introduction     38
Kid{dollar} With Working Idea{dollar}     39
Cloze Exercises     40
Sports in the Making: Tennis     41
Understanding Paragraphs
Introduction     42
Paragraph Exercises     43
Relevant and Irrelevant Information
Introduction     44
Not Zackly     45
Show Off     46
Paddock for a Pony     47
Fact and Opinion
Introduction     48
Battlers of the Great Depression     49
Made for Australia     49
Not Another Ad!     50
My Diary     51
Understanding Persuasion
Introduction     52
What a Waste!     53
Saving Wildlife     54
Going Fishing With My Dad     55
Understanding and Using a Table of Contents
Introduction     56
What a Waste!     57
Understanding and Using an Index
Introduction     58
Made for Australia     59
Using Schedules
Introduction     60
Train Schedule     61
Understanding Maps
Introduction     62
What's Cooking? (Greece)     63
Understanding Graphs and Charts
Introduction     64
Technology For the Environment     65
Answer Key     66
Graphic Organizers     76