Synopses & Reviews
Good reading and writing skills are essential not only for fifth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong achievement. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this 3-in-1 Super Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS
STOP AND GO STORY -- Illustrations and short stories featuring surfers, detectives, astronauts, and more show how to absorb and think about the facts of a story along the way.
MIND MAP -- Fill-in-the-blank sections aid in understanding key points in an article, including main points and details.
WRITING SUCCESS
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! -- Essay assignments allow kids to write their own fiction stories by incorporating plot and dialogue.
WRITING NONFICTION -- Exercises on choosing a topic, researching, and interviewing break down the process of writing a nonfiction story.
VOCABULARY SUCCESS
TIC-TAC-TOE -- Helps kids distinguish between synonyms and antonyms. Find three synonyms or antonyms in a row, and win!
IT'S PUZZLING -- Matches “prefix,” “root,” and “suffix” puzzle pieces to form new words.
PLUS!
CHECK IT! STRIPS -- Reinforce concepts as kids check their own work.
Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 5th Grade Super Reading Success.
Why Sylvan Learning Products Work
Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Synopsis
3 BOOKS IN 1
Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities based on the fifth grade curriculum--perfect for kids tackling 5th grade reading and writing skills.
Good reading and writing skills are essential not only for 5th grade academic success, but also for lifelong achievement. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99 ) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 engaging pages all designed to increase your child's fluency with essential reading concepts like:
- key vocabulary words
- synonyms & antonyms
- prefixes & suffixes
- homographs
- word roots
- reading comprehension
- fiction & nonfiction essentials
- proofreading & editing
With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 5th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead--and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it
*Includes the full text of 5th Grade Vocabulary Success, 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Success, and 5th Grade Writing Success
***** Why Sylvan Products Work *****
Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation's most comprehensive awards program for children's products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents.
Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan's line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Table of Contents
Vocabulary Success1) Synonyms & Antonyms ............1
2) More Synonyms & Antonyms ............9
3) Homographs ............17
- Review ............25
4) Prefixes ............29
5) More Prefixes ............37
6) Even More Prefixes ............45
7) Suffixes ............53
8) More Suffixes ............61
- Review ............69
9) Roots ............73
10) More Roots ............81
11) Even More Roots ............89
12) Roots, Last Call! ............97
- Review ............105
- Index: Vocabulary Words ............109
Reading Comprehension Success
Before You Read
1) Prepare Yourself ............115
2) What Do You Know? ............123
While You Read
3) Read between the Lines ............131
4) Stop and Ask ............139
5) Cross Check ............147
6) Learn New Words ............155
7) Make an Argument ............163
8) Point of View ............171
After You Read
9) Keep It Straight ............179
10) Make a Map ............189
Writing Success
Nonfiction
1) Writing Nonfiction ............199
2) Topic & Topic Sentence ............207
3) Mapping ............215
4) Writing an Argument ............223
5) Drafting ............231
Fiction
6) Writing Fiction ............239
7) Mapping ............247
8) Plot ............255
9) Description & Dialogue ............263
10) Drafting ............271
Polishing
11) Rereading & Revising ............279
12) Proofreading & Editing ............287
13) Publishing ............295
- Review ............299