Drive student proficiency in answering text structure reading questions. This ELA reading comprehension bundle combines 2 mini-packs and consists of 8 skills-focused worksheets with 41+ questions, split between fiction and nonfiction (informational text).

This Bundle Includes:

• 8 text structure worksheets, split between fiction and informational passages (science & social studies)   
• 41+ questions, with simulated standardized test questions for 4th and 5th grade
• Mix of multiple choice and open/short response activities  
• Unassisted version without tips
• Digitally enabled (Easel Activities) versions to assign online via Google Classroom or any LMS 

Students Will: 

Fiction

• refer to parts of stories and poems when answering questions about a text
• explain how a series of sentences, paragraphs, lines and stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a story or poem
• identify and describe the role parts of a text have in developing the story’s plot and/or its elements (setting, main characters, problem, solution)

Non-Fiction

• identify text structures (chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution) of paragraphs and entire passages 
• compare and contrast the structures of two texts
• describe the role of paragraphs in helping a student’s understanding
• use subheadings (section titles) to locate information and describe the sections they represent 

Informational Text Topics: 

Social Studies

• Why the Pilgrims sailed to America and celebrated Thanksgiving
• How California and Wisconsin became the center for show business and the dairy industry respectively 
• Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the new world & the impact it had   

Science

• Similarities and differences between a hurricane and a tornado
• A ten-year old’s journal on preparing and living through Hurricane Andrew 

🎯 Standards-Aligned, Simulated After National & State ELA Tests:

• SBAC: Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
• STAAR: Texas state test based on TEKS standards
• FSA: based on the original Florida Standards Assessment; same vendor now creates FAST progress monitoring assessments
• NYS: New York State Testing Program (NYSTP)
• IAR: Illinois Assessment of Readiness
• GMAS: Georgia Milestones Assessment System
• OST: Ohio’s State Tests
• M-STEP: Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress
• NJSLA: New Jersey Student Learning Assessment
• VA SOL: Virginia Standards of Learning
• AASA: Arizona Academic Standards Assessment
• TCAP, MCAP, CMAS, MCAS, MAP, MCA, Wisconsin Forward, PARCC & more

👩‍🏫 Useful in Many Ways

Reading worksheets take 10-15 minutes to complete, and are useful for:

• Literacy lessons
• Practice: guided and independent
• Literacy centers and stations
• Small groups, group activities, partner work
• Intervention, RTI, tutoring, remediation 
• Independent work, homework, enrichment, early finishers
• Morning work, bell ringers, do now, ELA warm-ups
• ELA test prep (reading), with test taking strategies
• Progress monitoring checks, assessments, exit tickets
• Reading skills review and reteach 
• Sub plans/work: ready-to-use substitute teacher activities
• Reading packets: absent work, winter, spring and summer recess
• Summer school, summer bridge reading activities
• Afterschool programs or extended day reading activities
• Homeschool unit study

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ALIGNED WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR 4TH & 5TH GRADE

Literature

• RL.4.5: Refer to the structural elements of poems and stories when writing or speaking about a text.
• RL.5.5: Explain how a series of paragraphs or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story or poem.

Informational Text

• RI.4.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
• RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.