This colorful text features high-interest fiction and non-fiction stories with plenty of photographs and illustrations. Breaking reading down into engaging, manageable portions- - just right for fifth graders- - short reading passages are followed by spiral-based questions designed to improve reading comprehension. Main Idea, compare/contrast, sequencing, fact/opinion, and comprehension fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice exercises follow. Grade 5.

This fifth grade curriculum covers sequencing, the main idea, compare/contrast, drawing conclusions and predicting outcomes, fact/opinion, and cause and effect. Strategies employed include identifying text structure, questioning, learning cooperatively, understanding vocabulary, monitoring comprehension, summarizing, applying multiple strategies, and more.

EPS' Making Connections curriculum can be used as either a supplemental or stand-alone reading comprehension curriculum. Each unit focuses on a specific skill that's introduced and developed through explicit instruction, practice, and support, with support gradually removed to encourage independent reading.