Reading Paired Text: Common Core Mastery, Grade 5

Support your fifth-grade students in close reading discussions of nonfiction and fiction texts with practice that supports Common Core methodology. Each unit contains two related reading selections that reflect fifth-grade science and social studies topics and are focused around an essential question. For example, How did ordinary people play a part in history? (essential question) connects "Deborah Samson, Soldier of the Revolution" (a nonfiction article) and "Two Poems from the Underground Railroad" (fictional poems).