Guided Reading for fifth and sixth grades develops foundational reading skills and improves comprehension as students engage with informational texts.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Synthesize for fifth and sixth grades. This resource includes 36 leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers engage students with popular topics such as money, hip-hop, ads, language, and more.

Create a comprehensive reading program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Synthesize. This reading comprehension resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes:

• discussion guides
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• leveled readers with intriguing topics
• graphic organizers and an observation sheet

The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level comprehension skills and feature callout boxes to teach students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can reflect on what they learned.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.