Inside the teacher guide, you'll find simple, easy-to-follow lessons that lay out everything you need to know and prepare to guide your students through each day.

This resource provides more than just a collection of nonfiction reading activities. The lessons have been carefully designed so that you can teach critical nonfiction reading skills in a logical order where students building upon their learning and grow as nonfiction readers throughout the unit.

THE FOLLOWING NONFICTION READING SKILLS ARE COVERED:

• Determining the difference between fiction and nonfiction texts

• Learning how to navigate nonfiction texts using nonfiction text features

• Understanding how authors organize nonfiction texts with specific text structures (descriptive, sequencing, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast)

• How to identify and use content-specific vocabulary

• Author's purpose

• Identifying the main ideas and support details in nonfiction texts

• How to gather information from multiple sources on a single topic

• How to comparing and contrasting information found within a text

• Reading primary and secondary sources

• Determining facts and opinions in nonfiction texts

This unit strikes the perfect balance between using curated texts along side custom-made resources that help teach specific nonfiction reading skills! Find a variety of nonfiction topics covered through the many articles, letters, and interviews provided!

THIS RESOURCES INCLUDES:

• Easy-to-navigate Teacher Guide that makes lesson planning a breeze!

• Digital Anchor Slides that help you effortlessly guide your students through each lesson.

• A student activity packet that keeps student learning all in one place - a variety of activities help students to interact and engage with several nonfiction texts (printable & digital)

• 10 originally written nonfiction texts specifically tailored toward nonfiction reading skills (includes a variety of nonfiction formats such as articles, letters to a magazine, and interviews)

• Nonfiction text features reference sheet

• Nonfiction Text Feature LINKtivity® Interactive Learning Guide for extra practice

• Nonfiction Text Structures LINKtivity® Interactive Learning Guide

• Text structure discussion cards for extra practice in identifying nonfiction text structures

• End-of-unit group poster project to help people put all their nonfiction reading skills to work!

• Colorful bulletin board set to help reinforce concepts learned in each lesson

In addition to all materials listed above, I have provided suggested book titles to use throughout the lessons. These are popular books that you will be able to find in your local libraries or many already in your classroom! You can also swap out your favorite nonfiction texts to use instead!

WHAT OTHER TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING...

Miss Mo and her Munchkins, a 5th grade teacher says:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐This resource saved me. Teaching a nonfiction unit to 5th grade for the first time intimidated me a little, but this resource made it fun for the students, easy to teach, and very effective. It's easy to follow and has great activities. I saw huge growth in my students, especially my lower students.

Rachel H says...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I have loved doing this unit with my kids. Thank you so much for adding some of your own written articles and journals. They were perfect for my classroom and was much easier to teach rather than finding the books! Also, the kids have loved the straight-forward packets--it made all of our lives so easy! Thank you for this :)

R.V. says...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An absolutely AMAZING resource!!!! SO easy to implement. The amount of things you get with this is SO worth the money. Lesson plans, bulletin board, & student packet???! Can't beat it. I actually had other teachers asking where I got the awesome bulletin board from. Great job with this!