Grade 5 Text Structure Health Curriculum Resources
Explore the skill of understanding text structure in the context of health with our Text Structure Health curriculum resources. Covering various health-related topics, these resources provide a comprehensive approach to recognizing and interpreting the organizational patterns of texts in an engaging and accessible format, fostering reading comprehension and text analysis skills.
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Importance of Healthy Diet
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Importance of Healthy Diet
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Informational Text —Importance of Sound
This Reading Informational Text Common Core standards calls for 4th graders to be able to effectively describe and analy...
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Scratching cat—Text structure
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Author's Purpose Brushing Teeth
This informational text on brushing your teeth will help students practice author's purpose and message. Students will r...
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Author's Points and Reasons
This informational text on the benefits of sleep will ask students to find the main point the author is trying to make. ...
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Health Breakfast—Author's Purpose
This informational text on the benefits of a healthy breakfast will ask students to find the main point the author is tr...
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Healthy Diet—Author's Use of Reasons and Evidence
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Healthy Eating—Informational Text
This worksheet will help your students to find the main point an author is trying to make, as well as identify reasons. ...
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Informational Text —Event Sequencing
This passage is perfect for teaching students how to follow steps in a text. In the passage, two siblings decide to make...
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The Benefits and Drawbacks of a Plant—Based Diet
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Cheering up a friend—Mental Health
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French Fries Compare & Contrast Text
This informational text on french fries is the perfect resource for teaching compare and contrast. Students will read tw...
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1 Grilled Cheese, Please! Chronological Order
This informational text on how to make a grilled cheese is perfect for teaching event sequencing and following steps! St...
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The Discovery of Penicillin
This passage compares Alexander Fleming's firsthand laboratory notes on the discovery of penicillin with a secondhand ac...
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The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
This passage contrasts Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account of the Mount Vesuvius eruption with a modern historical te...
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The Wright Brothers' First Flight
This passage presents two perspectives on the Wright Brothers' first flight: Orville Wright's firsthand journal entry an...
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The First Moon Landing
This passage juxtaposes Buzz Aldrin's firsthand recollection of the moon landing with a secondhand account from a New Yo...
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The Great Chicago Fire
This passage presents two accounts of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871: a firsthand diary entry and a secondhand newspaper...
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Supporting Points in Informational Text
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Ants and Pheromones
This quiz is designed for 2nd and 3rd grade students to test their understanding of how ants communicate using pheromone...
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At The Amusement Park!
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Living in the City
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Point of View
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Author's Opinion
These short passages are perfect for introducing point of view. Students will read three paragraphs total and be asked t...
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Distinguishing Point of View
This fiction passage about a trip to the amusement park is perfect for teaching point of view. Students will read two pa...
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Point of View in Informational Text
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Pitcher Plants: Reproduction Facts
This passage describes tropical and North American pitcher plants, their liquid-filled traps, and how they get nutrients...
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Venus Flytrap Facts
This passage explains where Venus flytraps live in North Carolina bogs, how their snap traps work, and their unique way ...
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Tardigrades: Microscopic Superheroes
Aligned to MS-LS1-1, this passage examines how tardigrade cell structures (TDP proteins, DNA-repair enzymes) allow survi...
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The Fascinating Dumbo Octopus: Deep-Sea Wonder
Aligned to NGSS, this passage explores Dumbo octopus adaptations like ear-like fins for swimming at 3,000-13,000 ft dept...
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The Narwhal: Arctic’s Unicorn of the Sea
This NGSS-aligned passage (MS-LS2-1) explores how narwhals survive in Arctic ecosystems. Students learn about specialize...
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Arctic Fox Facts: What Do Arctic Foxes Eat?
This passage explores the Arctic fox's dietary adaptations aligned with NGSS standard MS-LS2-4 (Ecosystem Interactions)....
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Wolves of Yellowstone
This passage explores the ecological concept of trophic cascades through the landmark case study of wolf reintroduction ...
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How Can We Help Pollinators and Stop Their Decline?
Pollinators including bees (Apis mellifera), butterflies (Lepidoptera), birds, and bats face severe threats with 40% of ...
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Why Are Honeybees Important?
This passage explores the essential ecological and agricultural roles of honeybees, supporting NGSS standard MS-LS2-4 on...
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What Would Happen If Bees Went Extinct?
This passage examines the potential consequences of bee extinction, perfectly aligned with NGSS standard MS-LS2-4 on eco...
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Why Are Pollinators Important?
This passage explores the critical ecological role of pollinators in maintaining ecosystem stability and supporting huma...
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The Blue-Ringed Octopus
This NGSS aligned passage explores how the tiny blue-ringed octopus impacts its ecosystem through predator-prey relation...
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Golgi Apparatus and Its Function
This NGSS-aligned reading passage introduces middle school students to the structure and function of the Golgi apparatus...
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What Is the Floor of an Aquatic Biome Called?
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explains the benthic zone, which is the floor of an aquatic biome such as ocea...
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What Characteristic Is Used to Divide Aquatic Biomes into Three Zones?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains how aquatic biomes such as oceans and lakes are divided into three zones base...
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The Estuary Biome: Where Freshwater Meets Saltwater
This middle school science reading passage explains the estuary biome, a unique ecosystem where freshwater and saltwater...
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What Abiotic Factors Determine the Type of Biome?
This NGSS-aligned middle school reading passage explains how abiotic factors—specifically temperature and precipitation—...
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Freezing Point Depression
This passage, 'Freezing Point Depression,' introduces students to the physical science concept of how adding substances ...
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The Melting Point of Copper
This reading passage, 'The Melting Point of Copper,' introduces middle school students to an important physical property...
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The Melting Point of Aluminum
This science reading passage, 'The Melting Point of Aluminum,' introduces middle school students to the physical propert...
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The Melting Point of Substances
This middle school science reading passage, titled 'The Melting Point of Substances', explores the physical property kno...
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Chemical Bonds
This reading passage on Chemical Bonds provides middle school students with a clear explanation of how and why atoms con...
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Parts of an Atom
This reading passage on Parts of an Atom provides middle school students with a structured and accessible explanation of...
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Fun Facts About Starfish
Starfish, despite their name, are not fish at all but fascinating echinoderms with an array of surprising characteristic...
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