CKHG Grade 5 Student Reader Collection

World Lakes reinforces map skills and geographical knowledge while exploring the benefits and resources of major lakes.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Maya, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations explores the cultures, achievements, and geographical context of three ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

The Age of Exploration introduces students to European exploration and trade from 1400 to the 1600s. Students learn about motivations for exploration, specific explorers, encounters with indigenous peoples, and the early slave trade.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

From the Renaissance to England’s Golden Age is a single book that, in three sections—on the Renaissance, the Reformation, and England’s Golden Age—tells the story of a time of dynamic political, religious, and artistic change in Europe that had far-reaching consequences for the shaping of the modern world.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Czars and Shoguns: Early Russia and Feudal Japan is a single volume divided into two separate sections on (1) Early Russia, and (2) Feudal Japan. The first section provides geographical background and tells the story of how Russia grew to a large country ruled by powerful czars. The second section explores Japan’s geography as an island nation and traces the rise of powerful feudal leaders called shoguns.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

The Geography of the United States reinforces map and globe skills as students learn about the geographic characteristics of different regions of the United States: New England, Mid-Atlantic, South, Midwest, Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, and West Coast.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Westward Expansion Before the Civil War explores how and why Americans moved west from the early to mid-nineteenth century, while also helping students learn about many geographical features of the U.S. Some content is tied to the “Pathway to Citizenship,” an array of civics-focused knowledge, questions, and activities.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

The Civil War explores the causes and consequences of one of our nation’s greatest crises, as slavery divided states and citizens, leading to a four-year nightmare of bloodshed and bitterness, profound social changes, and still unresolved tensions.  Some content is tied to the “Pathway to Citizenship,” an array of civics-focused knowledge, questions, and activities.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts is a single volume divided into two separate sections on (1) the causes and effects of the westward movement of Americans in the later 1800s, and (2) the ways of life of diverse Native American peoples, and how their cultures were disrupted, displaced, and profoundly altered by westward expansion and American government policies and practices in the 1800s.

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.