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📖 5th Grade · ELASL.5.1Unit 1: Close reading: quoting & inferring

Discussion that builds

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🎯 Objective: Students pose and respond to questions in collaborative discussions.

Lesson outline

  1. Talk moves.
  2. Socratic circle.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one contribution.

Lesson 4 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

SL.5.1

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

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

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Close reading: quoting & inferring”

  1. Reading goals and habits
  2. Quoting accurately
  3. Inferences with evidence
  4. Discussion that builds

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