Reading Street Common Core 5th Grade Units 1-6 Full Year Bundle 2013

This product is aligned with the 2013 Common Core edition of Reading Street for 5th grade. Please check the stories listed to make sure that they match your adoption.

This bundle contains a variety of activities for each lesson in Units 1 - 6 from the fifth grade Reading Street Common Core 2013. These activities are designed to teach, re-teach, practice, or assess the lessons taught in these units. All of the lessons from units 1 - 6 are included in this bundle.

A list of the unit lesson stories are listed below:

Unit 1:

• Red Kayak
• Thunder Rose
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Satchel Paige
• Ten Mile Day

Unit 2:

• At the Beach
• Hold the Flag High
• The Ch’i-lin Purse
• A Summer’s Trade
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Unit 3:

• The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine
• Leonardo’s Horse
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
• Mahalia Jackson
• Special Effects in Film and Television

Unit 4:

• “Westlandia” (fiction/social studies)
• “Tripping Over the Lunch Lady” (realistic fiction/ social studies)
• “Exploding Ants” (expository nonfiction/ science)
• “The Stormi Giovanni Club” (drama/social studies)
• “The Gymnast” (autobiography/ science)

Unit 5:

• “The Skunk Ladder” (humorous fiction)
• “The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic” (expository text)
• “Talk with an Astronaut” (expository text)
• “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (novel)
• “Ghost Towns of the American West” (expository text)

Unit 6:

• “The Truth About Austin’s Amazing Bats” (expository text/science)
• “The Mystery of Saint Matthew Island” (expository text/science)
• “King Midas and the Golden Touch” (myth/ social studies)
• “The Hindenburg” (expository text/ social studies)
• “Sweet Music in Harlem” (realistic fiction/ social studies)