Students in Grade 5 come to Reading Support 3 times a week. Each class is 45 minutes long. The skills listed below are worked on in grade 5 throughout the year. We use a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts to work on these skills. Our goal is for students to become more independent at these skills than they were in 4th grade.

• Other Skills Covered This Year

• drawing conclusions

• inferencing

• generalizing

• determining main idea and details

• character traits

• summarizing

• vocabulary

• topic develpoment in writing

• paragraph organization

• comparing and contrasting texts

• MCAS Open Response Practice

• MCAS Language Ats Practice

If you have any questions regarding your child's placement in Reading Support please see the How do students get chosen for reading support page or send us an email.

Helpful Links for Grade 5

Scott Foresman -students can log on and access Scott Foresman Reading Street materials online.

Internet 4 Classrooms - This is a free web portal designed to assist teachers and parents to find free internet resources for grades Pre-K to 8 to us for practice in the areas of language arts, mat, science and social studies.

Book Adventure- Book Adventure is a free way to motivate your child to read. Kids K-8 can search for books, read them offline, and take quizzes on what they have read.

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/- students can build their vocabulary knowledge with games that work on synonyms, antonyms, homophones, analogies, compound words , and much more.

https://www.funbrain.com/books - a big library of books for students to read online. Books geared from grade levels K-8 can be found on funbrain. There are also other games and videos for kids to enjoy.

abcya.com- Educational games and apps for kids.