5th Grade Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Reading Passages Common Core

Article of the Week Club, Grade 5 (5th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)

5th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 5 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs. This includes a pre-test, midterm, and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest informational text passages.

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Each article + activity pack includes these components:

original article written at the 5th grade level

modified version of each article

professional audio recording of each article and modified article

editable version of all activities and assessments

digital Google Slides version of all articles and activities

self-grading Google Forms assessments (3 per article)

Each article + activity pack includes these activities:

Activity 1 - Literal Comprehension Check (multiple choice)

Activity 2 - Literal Comprehension Check (open-ended) (alternate option for Act 1)

Activity 3 - Text Evidence Practice (annotation version)

Activity 4 - Text Evidence Practice (multiple choice version) (alternate option for Act 3)

Activity 5 - Skills focus (focuses on one CCSS skill)

Activity 6 - Integrating Sources Activity

Activity 7 - Skills Test

Activity 8 - Modified Skills Test (alternate option for Act 7)

Articles Currently Available (Download Today!)

5-1: Skill RI.5.2 Main Idea & Details / Topic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

5-2: Skill RI.5.2 Summarize / Topic: Making a Mummy

5-3: Skill RI.5.3 Explain Relationships in a Text / Topic: Water Watching: How You Can Prevent Drowning

5-4: Skill RI.5.3 Analyze Relationships in a Text / Topic: Volcano! The Eruption of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii

5-5: Skill Spiral Review RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3 / Topic: Gaming Addiction + Fortnite

5-6: Skill RI.5.4 Domain-Specific Vocabulary / Topic: Freedom Fighters: African Americans in the Civil War

5-7: Skill RI.5.4 Domain-Specific Vocabulary / Topic: The Business of Halloween

5-8: Skill RI.5.5 Analyze Text Structure / Topic: Fishing for Fins (Shark Finning)

5-9: Skill: RI.5.5 Analyze Text Structure / Topic: Red Tide

5-10: Skill RI.5.6 Analyze Multiple Accounts & Point of View / Topic: One Person (Benevolence)

5-11: Skill RI.5.6 Analyze Multiple Accounts & Point of View / Topic: The Great Depression

5-12: Skill Review RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6 / Topic: Amazon.com How Do They Do It?

5-13: MIDTERM Assessment RI.5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 / Topic: Life With a Peanut Allergy

5-14: Skill RI.5.8 Analyze Claims and Reasons in an Argument / Topic: Made in China: The Outsourcing of American Goods

5-15: Skill RI.5.8 Analyze Claims and Reasons in an Argument / Topic: School Uniforms

5-16: Skill RI.5.7 Answer Questions Using Multiple Sources / Topic: Forest Fires

5-17: Skill RI.5.9 Integrate Info From Multiple Sources / Topic: Perseverance

5-18: Skill RI.5.9 Integrate Info From Multiple Sources / Topic: Soaring (Early African American Pilots)

5-19: Review RI.5.7, RI.5.8, RI.5.9 / Topic: Germs!

5-20: Skill RI.5.1 Cite Text Evidence / Topic: Responsible Citizenship

5-21: Skill RI.5.3 Explain Relationships and RI.5.6 Perspective & POV / Topic: Girls in Sports

5-22: Test Prep/Test Practice

5-23: End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM / Topic: The California Gold Rush

5-24: Final Exam / Topic: Athlete Philanthropists

5-25: Pre-Assessment / Beginning of the Year Exam / Topic: The Fall of the Greatest Show on Earth

For more details about which CCSS skills are included in which articles, check out this working Google Doc anytime for updates: https://goo.gl/2XNGQg

Nonfiction Article of the Week Clubs are available for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades:

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