Implement balanced literacy in your grade 5 classroom! This comprehensive set includes everything that teachers need to transition towards a balanced literacy framework in their classrooms. The fifteen titles featured in this set include a wide range of informational texts covering math, science, and social studies topics. The high-interest content will engage students in learning as they develop their literacy skills. This set includes five copies of each of the fifteen titles, and one copy of Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy. The invaluable classroom resource includes easy-to-implement strategies to nurture reading and writing skills through Shared/Guided/Independent Reading and Writing activities. It also provides in-depth lessons plans that take away the guesswork out of what is needed to implement the Balanced Literacy approach. Titles in this set include: Night Skies; The Winning Angle; Shipwreck Detectives; Amusement Parks; CSI; Life and Non-Life in an Ecosystem; DNA; Composition of Matter; Conservation of Mass; The Four Spheres of Earth; Global Warming; The War of 1812: By the Dawn's Early Light; 19th Century Innovations: Paving the Way; Settling and Unsettling the West; Causes of the Civil War: A House Divided.