Units of Study - Reading Workshop

In Fifth Grade, we will be using Reading Units of Study by Lucy Calkins This program follows a workshop model. We will work on structural analysis, word knowledge, comprehension, and fluency.

In addition, students will use Readers Notebooks, Independent novels, magazines, articles, non-fiction research, and Storyworks, to name a few.

Survey for favorite book hyperdoc

Character Mapping cutouts


Read Aloud Texts: Home of the Brave, "Dreams" by Langston Hughes.
Book club suggestions: The Running Dream, Fish in a Tree, Out of My Mind, Joey Pigza, Blubber, Rules, Freak, the Mighty

Non fiction writing- Time Person of the Year (scientists)Close reading Hyperdoc


Unit 3 Argument and Advocacy Text sets

Units of Study Overviews and Learning Outcomes