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📖 ELA5th Grade

5th Grade ELA: the year at a glance

9 units · 45 lessons · based on Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block). Every unit ends with a review & assessment day.

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Unit 1: Close reading: quoting & inferring RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what it says and when drawing inferences

  1. Reading goals and habitsRL.5.10
  2. Quoting accuratelyRL.5.1
  3. Inferences with evidenceRL.5.1
  4. Discussion that buildsSL.5.1
  5. Review & assessment

Unit 2: Theme, characters & comparing stories RL.5.2

Determine theme including how characters respond to challenges · Compare characters, settings and events · Summarize the text

  1. Theme from challengesRL.5.2
  2. SummarizingRL.5.2
  3. Comparing charactersRL.5.3
  4. Narrator’s point of viewRL.5.6
  5. Compare stories in a genreRL.5.9
  6. Visual elementsRL.5.7
  7. Review & assessment

Unit 3: Narrative writing W.5.3

Write narratives using dialogue, description, pacing and sensory details

  1. Planning a narrativeW.5.3a
  2. PacingW.5.3b
  3. Dialogue and descriptionW.5.3b
  4. TransitionsW.5.3c
  5. Sensory details and conclusionW.5.3d
  6. PublishW.5.6
  7. Review & assessment

Unit 4: Informational text: main ideas, relationships & multiple texts RI.5.2

Determine two or more main ideas · Explain relationships between individuals, events or ideas · Integrate information from several texts

  1. Two main ideasRI.5.2
  2. Relationships in textsRI.5.3
  3. Compare text structuresRI.5.5
  4. Multiple accountsRI.5.6
  5. Reasons and evidenceRI.5.8
  6. Integrating sourcesRI.5.9
  7. Review & assessment

Unit 5: Vocabulary: roots, figurative language & relationships L.5.4

Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots · Interpret figurative language · Use word relationships

  1. Greek rootsL.5.4b
  2. Latin rootsL.5.4b
  3. Figurative languageL.5.5a
  4. Idioms, adages, proverbsL.5.5b
  5. Word relationshipsL.5.5c
  6. Review & assessment

Unit 6: Opinion writing W.5.1

Write opinion pieces with logically ordered reasons supported by facts and details

  1. Claims and reasonsW.5.1a
  2. Logically ordered reasonsW.5.1b
  3. Linking ideasW.5.1c
  4. Conclusion and debateW.5.1d
  5. Review & assessment

Unit 7: Research writing W.5.7

Conduct short research projects using several sources · Summarize or paraphrase and provide a list of sources

  1. Research planW.5.7
  2. Credible sourcesW.5.8
  3. Notes and paraphrasingW.5.8
  4. Drafting the reportW.5.2
  5. PresentingSL.5.5
  6. Review & assessment

Unit 8: Grammar & conventions L.5.1

Use conjunctions, prepositions and interjections · Use perfect verb tenses and correct shifts in tense · Use commas correctly

  1. Conjunctions, prepositions, interjectionsL.5.1a
  2. Perfect tensesL.5.1b
  3. Shifts in tenseL.5.1d
  4. Correlative conjunctionsL.5.1e
  5. CommasL.5.2
  6. Review & assessment

Unit 9: Poetry & figurative language RL.5.4

Determine the meaning of figurative language in poems · Explain how stanzas fit together

  1. Poetic devicesRL.5.4
  2. Stanzas and structureRL.5.5
  3. Write poemsW.5.3
  4. Year-end book clubSL.5.1
  5. Review & assessment

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