Mrs. Gina Entwistle
5th Grade ELA/SS Teacher
entwistlegl@besd53.org
Essential Question: How does reading help us build knowledge?
Focusing Question: What does reading and education mean to Grandmother and Nasreen in Nasreen's Secret School?
Content Framing Questions:
Lesson 1: WONDER: What do I notice and wonder about Nasreen's Secret School?
Lesson 2: ORGANIZE: What is happening in Nasreen's Secret School?
Lesson 3: REVEAL: What does a deeper exploration of Nasreen's feelings toward reading reveal in Nasreen's Secret School?
Lesson 4: DISTILL: What is the essential meaning of Nasreen's Secret School?
Lesson 5: KNOW: How does Nasreen's Secret School build my knowledge?
Text: Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter
(Click on the story's title or on the book below to access the story.)
Click here for the YouTube Read Aloud for Nasreen's Secret School
Essential Question: How do cultural beliefs and values guide people?
Essential Standards/I Can Statements
RL.5.1: I can accurately quote from a fiction text when I
am explaining what it says.
RI.5.1: I can accurately quote from informational text
when I am explaining what it says.
L.5.6: I can learn and use vocabulary appropriate for fifth
grade.
W.5.8: I can recall what I have learned or find new
information from books or technology to help me
with my research.
W.5.9: I can gather evidence from fiction or informational
text to support my investigation, thinking and
research.
Digital Copy of Module 1 Core Text
Digital Copy of Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
Module 1 Fluency Texts to Practice at Home:
(Click on each link below to access the Fluency Letter/Information to parents as well as each assigned fluency passage for Module 1; fluency passages are assigned every 3-5 lessons and will not begin until Lesson 5.)
Resources:
Essential Question: How and why do writers play with words?
Essential Standards/I Can Statements
RL.5.1: I can accurately quote from a fiction text when
I am explaining what it says.
RL.5.4: I can determine the meaning of words in a
text, including figurative language like similes
and metaphors.
W.5.9: I can gather evidence from fiction or
informational text to support my investigation,
thinking and research.
L.5.4: I can determine the meaning of words and
phrases in a text by using context and word
parts.
Digital Copy of Module 2 Core Text,
Digital Copy of The Phantom Tollbooth
Module 2 Fluency Texts to Practice at Home:
(Click on each link below to access the Fluency Letter/Information to parents as well as each assigned fluency passage for Module 2; fluency passages are assigned every 3-5 lessons and will not begin until Lesson 2.)
Resources:
Module 2 Assessed Vocabulary
Essential Question: How did the Civil War impact people?
Digital Copy of Module 3 Core Texts:
The River Between Us Digital Book
Module 3 Fluency Texts to Practice at Home:
(Click on each link below to access the Fluency Letter/Information to parents as well as each assigned fluency passage for Module 3; fluency passages are assigned every 3-5 lessons and will not begin until Lesson 7.
Essential Question: How can sports influence individuals and societies?
Recordings of Chapters in We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Module 4 Fluency Texts to Practice at Home:
(Click on each link below to access the Fluency Letter/Information to parents as well as each assigned fluency passage for Module 4; fluency passages are assigned every 3-5 lessons and will not begin until Lesson 2.)