During self-selected reading, fifth graders select books which they can read on their independent level. As teachers conference with each student, book selection and comprehension are monitored to ensure each student is appropriately challenged. Fifth graders will read several novels this year. Better readers will read more complicated books. Fifth graders can read independently.
Fifth graders read for pleasure and for information.
They continue to build their vocabularies and increase the number of words that they recognize. They will find the meanings of some new words by looking the words up in dictionaries or thesauruses. They will use many skills to help them understand what they have read. Fifth graders react to what they have read. Fifth graders discuss and write reports about their reactions to what they have read.