Help your fourth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

"Rigorous examination of texts; study of genre and craft and structure; supports range of reading and level of text complexity; oral and written close reading activities; text-based writing prompts." -- Front cover.

The 5-pack provides five books of the same grade level.

Help your first-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity. Each of the 8 units provides a literary text in a minibook format, covering a variety of fiction genres such as folk tale, poetry, fable, and realistic fiction, as well as easy-to-scaffold activities that include: Vocabulary activity: Picture dictionary with content words and a "Words to Know" list Reading comprehension activities: "I Read Closely," "I Read and Understand," and "I Tell the Story" Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion Genre activity: such as "I Read a Fable" Writing activity: "I Can Write" Additional teacher support includes: Correlations to Common Core State Standards and TEKS for every unit for easy reference Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit The 8 units explore these genres and reading selections: Realistic fiction: "Caleb's Year" Poetry: "Color" and "Bed in Summer" Folk Tale: "The Ant's Voice" Aesop's Fable: "The Bear and the Bees" Nursery Rhyme: "Three Little Kittens" Historical Fiction: "Mary's Fourth of July" Navajo Folk Tale: "Spider Woman"

Develops the Advanced Skills in the Next Generation Learning Standards! This workbook focuses on developing a thorough understanding of literature. It contains a wide range of literary texts organized by type. Each passage is followed by a complete full-length question set. This workbook will ensure that students have strong reading comprehension skills and can respond to challenging passages. Students will also be fully prepared for the literature reading tasks on the New York State English Language Arts tests. Focuses on Understanding and Analyzing Literature - Includes 16 practice sets containing a wide range of literary texts - Includes fables, myths, legends, poetry, plays, historical fiction, science fiction, personal narratives, and more - Each passage is followed by a full set of 15 questions with a range of formats - Complete reading comprehension question sets provide extensive practice responding to and analyzing texts Advanced Skill Development - Covers the skills listed in the Next Generation Learning Standards - Challenging passages build strong reading comprehension skills - Encourages close reading and using evidence from texts - Focuses on advanced skills like evaluating texts, making connections, and looking at texts critically - Provides experience with a wide range of question types Preparation for the New York State English Language Arts Assessments - Provides experience with a wide range of literary text types - Develops the student's ability to respond to and analyze complex texts - Ensures that students are able to show an in-depth understanding of texts - Wide range of question formats challenge students and encourage strong skill development - Includes practice writing short answers and essays based on literary texts - Ongoing practice builds confidence

This workbook focuses on developing a thorough understanding of literature. It contains a wide range of literary texts organized by type. Each passage is followed by a complete full-length question set. This workbook will ensure that students have strong reading comprehension skills and can respond to challenging passages. Students will also be fully prepared for the literature reading tasks on the End-of-Grade ELA/Reading tests. Focuses on Understanding and Analyzing Literature - Includes 16 practice sets containing a wide range of literary texts - Includes fables, myths, legends, poetry, plays, historical fiction, science fiction, personal narratives, and more - Each passage is followed by a full set of 15 questions with a range of formats - Complete reading comprehension question sets provide extensive practice responding to and analyzing texts Advanced Skill Development - Covers the skills listed in the Reading Literature section of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study - Challenging passages build strong reading comprehension skills - Encourages close reading and using evidence from texts - Focuses on advanced skills like evaluating texts, making connections, and looking at texts critically - Provides experience with a wide range of question types Preparation for the End-of-Grade ELA/Reading Assessments - Provides experience with a wide range of literary text types - Develops the student's ability to respond to and analyze complex texts - Ensures that students are able to show an in-depth understanding of texts - Wide range of question formats challenge students and encourage strong skill development - Ongoing practice builds confidence

Encourage fifth-grade students to build their reading comprehension and word study skills using daily practice activities. Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools and activities. With these easy-to-use activities, fifth graders will boost their reading skills in a hurry!