Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 36 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple teach, practice, and assess approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts Main Idea and Details Text Features and Visual Information Description Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Sequence Problem and Solution Predict Vocabulary Summarize Fact and Opinion Make Inferences Authors Purpose Text Structure Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts Character Setting Plot Theme Point of View Predict Vocabulary Visual Information Summarize Make Inferences Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Foreshadowing Hyperbole Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction...