Common Core Top Pick for Language and Reading Literature and Informational Text Language Conventions of Standard English Vocabulary Acquisition and Use Reading Literature and Informational Text Key Ideas and Details Integration of Knowledge and Ideas View all Common Core Top Picks for Language and Reading Literature and Informational Text Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 5 provides 12 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories: "The Tiger and the Jackals" "Old Bragwynn the Pirate"  "How Shalbus Egbert Bested the Bear "   Nonfiction Stories: "Tracking Tornadoes"    "Silkworms" "Joy Adamson: Living with Lions"    Activity pages include: comprehension questions a vocabulary exercise for every story Other skills addressed include the following: critical thinking interpreting graphic information reading with expression, analyzing characters