Grade 5 · Reading · Lesson 17

Read nonfiction: science, technology, world events

Nonfiction is writing about real things — real discoveries, real machines, real events happening in the world right now. Strong Grade 5 readers do not skim a science article the way they skim a story. They slow down, use the text features, and decide what the writer is really telling them.

What this lesson teaches

1Identify the topic of a nonfiction article in one sentence
2Use headings, captions, and bold key terms to locate information
3Define science, technology, and world-event vocabulary from context
4Summarize the main idea of a short nonfiction passage

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