Reading Journeys Common Core Reading is used through out the grade levels at Sacred Heart. Journeys builds a deep understanding of key strategies and topics within a single lesson, across a grade, and across the program. each lesson features a strategy and topic to tie the week's two text selections together. To read complex texts, students need a knowledge base that is both broad and deep. Much of this knowledge base is built through reading itself. In fifth grade look for: paired texts on the same topic, whole group strategic reading, small group literature discussion groups with leveled readers, writing traits to build better writers...