Grade 5: PPS Literacy Resources
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Mentor Texts and Student Book Club Suggestions
The unit recommends Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse for your read-aloud.  
  • See explanation on page 142 of the If-Then unit for information about using this text as a read-aloud and page 143 for other books that can be paired with Out of the Dust as part of a demonstration text set. 
You will also find suggestions for mentor texts and student book club choices in the documents below.  Many of these texts have been purchased for your buildings:
historical_fiction_grade_5_mentor_(1).docx
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grade5_histfiction_booklist_final_(1).docx
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