Theme Matters - Aligned Standard: ELAGSE5RL2 This sample lesson uses recurring events in order to identify and examine a theme in a work of realistic fiction.
Text Talk Time: Teaching Strategy for Asking and Answering Questions - RI.1 This video shows a teacher modeling a class discussion on an informational text. The students are responsible for asking questions, citing evidence, and expressing their thinking. This video models with a 5th grade class.
Tearing Into Informational Text - This is a unit consisting of 9 lessons that will reinforce understanding of text structures and learn to compare and contrast different text structure. Standards: ELAGSE5RI1, ELAGSE5RI4, ELAGSE5RI5, ELAGSE5RI7, ELAGSE5RI8, ELAGSE5RI10, ELAGSE5RF4 ELAGSE5W2,
Strategies for Inferencing - ELAGSERL1. This link provides various strategies to teach how to draw inferences from text. The link includes step-by-step strategies and graphic organizers to use for this skill.
Response to intervention menu - This chart gives examples of what students may be struggling with and possible interventions that could help them.
Remembering the Sinking of the Titanic - A series of 4 lessons to cover 5RL6, 5RI2, 5RI4, 5RI6, 5RI9, 5RI10, 5W1a, 5W2b
Phantom Tollbooth Reading Unit - This is a unit which includes 25 lessons using the book Phantom Tollbooth to cover the following standards: 5RI1, 5RI2, 5RI4, 5RI7, 5RL4, 5RL7, 5L2, 5L4, 5L5, 5W1, 5W2, 5W4, 5W6, 5W9, 5W10.
Nonfiction vs. Fiction - What's the Difference? - Aligned Standards: RL5.2, RL5.7, RL5.9, W5.5, W5.9, SL5.1c, SL5.2, SL5.4, L5.6. Lesson plan will have students compare and contrast narrative fiction books and informational nonfiction books to determine the ways they are similar and different.
Mentor Sentences Volume 1 Unit 1 - Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author's craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit is just what you need to get started with mentor sentences in your classroom.
Main Idea vs. Theme Anchor Chart - Anchor chart showing the difference between main idea and theme
Literary Analysis: Reading for Meaning, Evidence, and Purpose - This is a series of 11 lessons that address standards 5RL1, 5RL2, 5RL4, 5RL6, 5RL7, 5RL10, 5SL1c
Let's Sum it Up! Summarizing Nonfiction Text Day 1 - Students will learn how to summarize informational text while using different text structures. ELAGSE5RI2, ELAGSE5RI5
Hero or Not? Close reading of Biography to Support an Argument - This is the first of a 3 day lesson that pulls together all of the common core informational text standards for 5th grade.Students will read about a Japanese man who helped Jews escape from Lithuania to Japan by issuing transit visas. They will work to prove he is a hero by using evidence found in the biography. The two lessons that follow will ask students to repeat the procedure using an article and then state their opinion in writing using all resources they read during the lessons. Primary Standard addressed ELAGSE5RI3. Other standards addressed ELAGSE5RI1, ELAGSE5RI5, ELAGSE5RI7, ELAGSE5RI8
Getting students to feel the story - RL1- Lesson plan that teaches students to make predictions about "The Story of Ruby Bridges" using details on the front and back cover of the book. The big idea of the lesson is that by creating feelings and connections with characters in a text, readers become more involved in story events.
Fifth Grade Reading & Writing Unit - This is a fifth grade reading and writing unit that includes lessons covering the following standards: 5RI2, 5RI7, 5RI9, 5RL1, 5RL2, 5RL3, 5RL4, 5RL6, 5RL9, 5RL10, 5L1, 5L3, 5L4, 5L5, 5L6, 5W1, 5W3, 5W4, 5W9, 5W10, 5SL1, 5SL5
Explorers of America Reading Unit - This is a reading unit that allows students to read from different sources and compare and contrast different accounts of a historical event. Standards covered: ELAGSE5RI1,ELAGSE5RI2, ELAGSE5RI5, ELAGSE5RI6, ELAGSE5RI7 ELAGSE5RI8, ELAGSE5RI9 ELAGSE5RI10, ELAGSE5SL1B,C, ELAGSE5SL3
Engage New York- A Year- Long Reading Program - This is a year long program that addresses every common core reading standard. Included in the link are curriculum guides, a curriculum plan, protocols, resources, and graphic organizers. There are daily lessons provided as well as assessments.
Determining the theme of a poem from details in a text. - Aligned standards: RL5.2, RL5.4, RL5.5, RF5.4b, SL51d, SL5.2, L5.5, L5.5a. This lesson plan teaches students to determine the theme of the poem "Casey at the Bat" from details in the text, how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic and summarize the text.
Comparing Poetry and Prose - Aligned standards: RL5.2, RL5.3, RL5.5, RL5.6, RL5.10, W5.1, W5.2, SL51c., SL51d. This lesson plan teaches students to summarize "The Wreck of the Titanic" poem and write about how poetry changes the reader's perspective on the story of the Titanic.
Compare and Contrast Characters drawing on details in the text - Standard: ELAGSE5RL3 This lesson focuses on the ability to compare and contrast characters by using details in the text.
Analyze Figurative Language - Aligned standards: ELAGSE5RL1, ELAGSE5RL4, ELAGSE5L5 This lesson focuses on analyzing figurative language through song.