What do people, real or imagined, learn from exploring their world?
Students explore exemplar texts to examine what can be learned from the characters’ experiences and development. Additionally, students read a variety of informational and literary texts. This unit will include informational pieces of writing.
- RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RL.5.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, setting, or events in the text
- RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
- RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
- RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., a graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, [or] poem).
- RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- RI.5.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
- RI.5.8: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
- RF.5.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
- W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- W.5.5: With guidance and support from adults and peers, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
- W.5.7: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- W.5.8: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- W.5.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- W.5.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single setting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- SL.5.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, group, and teacher-led) on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- SL.5.2: Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- SL.5.4: Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
- SL.5.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.
- L.5.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- e. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
- L.5.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
- a. Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style
- b. Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.
- L.5.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- L.5.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition)