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English · Grade 5

Read Complex Text with Support

Learners read a challenging informational article about beavers as wetland engineers and practise the moves strong readers use when a text gets hard: noticing confusion and fixing it, breaking long sentences into chunks, using headings and other text features, and stating the main idea of each section. A new article about snow fences checks transfer.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 minutes
  • Complex text check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Notice when meaning breaks down and choose a fix-up strategy such as rereading, reading on, slowing down or asking a question.
  • Break a long, complex sentence into chunks, find its core (who or what did what) and paraphrase it accurately.
  • Use text features (headings, bold or defined words, captions) to predict, locate and connect information.
  • Determine the main idea of each section of a complex text, explain how key details support it and summarize the text.

Lessons

  1. Notice when meaning breaks down 7 steps3 practiceabout 20 min
  2. Chunk long sentences 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  3. Use text features to find and connect 6 steps3 practiceabout 20 min
  4. Main ideas and a summary 5 steps3 practiceabout 23 min
  5. Complex text check 8 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Memory LanternsFlip glowing lanterns to find pairs that belong together.
  • Sentence TheatreYour words direct the show: change a word and the stage changes too.
  • Missing ChapterA page has gone missing. Use the clues to put the right one back.

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