Fifth Grade Informational Lessons

Power Writing Lessons

These lessons focus on the skills needed to master the chosen standard and are designed to compliment the companion writing lessons.

Companion Writing Lessons

These lessons are built to extend the skills taught in the power lessons. The intent is to allow the students to demonstrate their knowledge of the skills needed to master the chosen standard.

Power Lesson

Transitioning with Transition Words

Choosing the correct transition to use between ideas

Fifth Grade Power Lesson -- Informational -- Transitioning with Transition Words.pdf

Companion Lesson

Informational Writing

I can link ideas in informational writing using words, phrases and clauses.

Fifth Grade Mastery Lesson -- Informational -- I can link ideas in informational writing using words, phrases, and clauses.pdf

Power Lesson

Multiple Main Ideas

Informational text with multiple main ideas and the key details

Fifth Grade Power Lesson -- Informational -- Multiple Main Ideas.pdf

Companion Lesson

Alexander Graham Bell's Impact on America

Collecting facts and details to support informational writing

Fifth Grade Companion Lesson -- Informational -- Alexander Graham Bell's Impact on America.pdf

Power Lesson

The Power of Paraphrasing

Learning how to take an original statement and paraphrase it

Fifth Grade Power Lesson -- Informational -- The Power of Paraphrasing.pdf

Companion Lesson

Paraphrase Perfection

Learning how to paraphrase an original statement

Fifth Grade Mastery Lesson -- Informational -- Paraphrase Perfection.pdf

Foundational and Mastery Skill-based Lessons

These lessons serve as a scaffold of the specific learning targets and move from the foundational level into the mastery level of the standard.

Fifth Grade Foundational Lesson -- Informational -- I an link ideas in informational writing.pdf

Foundational Lesson

I can link ideas in informational writing.

Fifth Grade Mastery Lesson -- Informational -- I can link ideas in informational writing using words, phrases, and clauses.pdf

Mastery Lesson

I can link ideas in informational writing using words, phrases, and clauses.

Recommended Mentor Texts

Two Bad Ants

Tuck Everlasting

The Barn Owls

Butterfly House

The Gift

The Gingerbread Cowboy

My Life with the Wave

Holes

Because of Winn-Dixie

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