Fifth Grade Reading

About Grade 5 Reading

Grade 5 reading (5th grade, ages 10–11) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Vocabulary & Language (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Comprehension & Analysis (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Reading for Information (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Fluency & Expression (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Reading Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to define tone as the author’s attitude toward the subject, pick a clear research question before opening any source and match a reading pace (slow, steady, fast) to the moment in the passage.

Start here: Lesson 1: Analyze Greek and Latin roots is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.