Fifth Grade Reading Unit Bundle Literature and Nonfiction Curriculum Activities

This fifth grade reading unit novel study curriculum bundle includes 12 different reading units or novels studies for a total of 180+ lesson plans. Your literature reading and informational reading (and writing) lessons plans can be done for the year, and they are 100% aligned to the 5th grade CCSS Reading Literature, CCSS Reading Informational, and CCSS Writing Main standards. These are exactly what you need to teach your sixth grade learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with a variety of genres.

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Want just the novel reading units?

• Fifth Grade Reading Unit Growing Bundle

Why buy the growing bundle?

• This HUGE bundle of reading units will increase in price each time I add a unit.
• The sooner you buy, the more you save!
• You will have access to EVERY unit I add to this growing bundle as they become available.
• Right now you are purchasing 10 reading units for 20% savings.

These resources have gotten HUGE updates (August 2020) since creation in 2015:

• Update: Digital Interactive Google Slides Literature Notebooks Lessons
• Update: Teacher suggested answers for comprehension questions
• Update: Teacher suggested vocabulary words and definitions
• Update: PowerPoint and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions (JPEG images included to upload to Google Slides as well)
• Update: Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
• Update: Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics
• Update: Editable Google Slides Reading Response Rubrics
• Update: Small group and individual conference teacher forms
• Update: Lesson plans and the Common Core standard alignments are their own file now so teachers can easily and quickly access the novel lessons.

Now included in a separate file for teachers:

• The Socratic Seminar: research base and strategy in practice
• Using this resource in your classroom
• Different reading workshop set-ups
• Scripted lesson examples
• Reading response notebook examples from my classroom

Included in this bundle:

1. Literature Interactive Notebook Unit (25 Lessons) Updated 2020
2. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (13 lessons) Updated 2020
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry (12 lessons) Updated 2020
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (28 lessons) Updated 2020
5. Holes by Louis Sachar (21 lessons) Updated 2020
6. Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (5 Lessons) Updated 2021
7. Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (5 Lessons) Updated 2021
8. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (13 lessons) Updated 2020
9. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz (16 lessons) Updated 2021
10. Smile by Raina Telgemeier (5 lessons) Updated 2021
11. Informational Interactive Notebook Unit (15 Lessons) Updated 2020
12. Titanic-Voices from the Disaster (14 Lessons) Updated 2021

In each reading unit you will find:

1. Lesson Plans Reading Unit (teacher suggested answers and vocabulary now included)
2. 40+ page Implementation Teachers Guide: Socratic Seminar, Tips and Tricks, Pacing, Student Examples, FAQs, scripted lesson examples, etc.
3. PowerPoint and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions (JPEG images included to upload to Google Slides as well)
4. Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
5. Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics
6. Editable Google Slides Reading Response Rubrics
7. Small group and individual conference teacher forms
8. Bonus in some units: Classroom decorations, activities, and engagement ideas
9. Bonus in some units: Book Quote Posters

Literature Lessons Included:

1. Reading Complex Texts
2. Quoting and Citing Accurately
3. Inferences Lesson 1
4. Inferences Lesson 2
5. Theme Lesson 1
6. Theme Lesson 2
7. Summarizing
8. Character Traits Lesson 1
9. Character Traits Lesson 2
10. Plot
11. Vocabulary/Context Clues
12. Figurative Language Lesson 1
13. Figurative Language Lesson 2
14. Tone and Mood
15. Poem Structures
16. Drama Structures
17. Text Structures
18. Point of View
19. Point of View Influence
20. Visual Multimedia Elements
21. Audio and Multimedia Elements
22. Different Genres of Texts
23. Different Forms of Texts
24. Traditional Literature
25. Greek Mythology

Nonfiction Lessons Included:

1. Reading Complex Texts (same lesson as literature)
2. Quoting and Citing Accurately (same lesson as literature)
3. Inferences Lesson 1 (same lesson as literature)
4. Inferences Lesson 2 (same lesson as literature)
5. Central Idea/Main Idea and Details
6. Summarizing Nonfiction Texts
7. Explain and Analyze: Individual, interactions, relationships, events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a text).
8. Vocabulary/Context Clues (same lesson as literature)
9. Nonfiction Text Structures: Cause and Effect
10. Nonfiction Text Structures: Comparison
11. Nonfiction Text Structures: Chronology
12. Nonfiction Text Structures: Problem and Solution
13. Author's Purpose
14. Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
15. Charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, interactive elements
16. Argumentative and Persuasion Techniques
17. Analyzing Text Features
18. Integrating Information

How are these reading units different?

• This unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core reading literature and main writing standard.
• The backbone of these units is The Socratic Seminar, which pushes students to have discussions with their peers, about the novels (by using the guiding and interpretive questions provided) while using text-based evidence and critical thinking.
• Their thinking and discussion build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year).
• This was designed when I had no reading or writing curriculum: I didn't want to just “hit” the standards. I wanted to dig deep into every single standard multiple times throughout the year.
• This unit teaches your students about every single fifth grade CCSS literature standard in an engaging, though-provoking, and fun unit and all the work is done for you.
• I still do guided reading, book clubs, literature circles, and Daily 5 in my classroom, so I know this can work with any type of reading program that you already have in place.
• In this unit, your students will get tons of support and conversations from their peers, will be exposed to literature and vocabulary at or above their grade level, and become part of a reading community. Yet it still gives you the flexibility to work with groups of students at their particular reading levels.

What is the difference between the curriculum bundles and the growing bundles?

• The growing bundle only has the novel reading units. It does contain all my 5th grade reading units (14 of them) or my 5th grade reading units (10 of them). Anytime I make a new reading unit, it will be added to the growing bundle.

• The curriculum has 10 pre-selected reading units (all genres) but also 40 lessons to teach literature terms and informational terms as well. Some people get the growing bundle (to have more options for reading units) and then purchase the literature and informational units separately! The curriculum does not get additional units added (it does get updates though!)

• If you are looking for your reading lessons and materials done for the year, then the curriculum. If you want more flexibility, get the growing bundle and then get the informational and literature units later if you need them.