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McGraw Hill Wonders Reading
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McGraw Hill Wonders Grade 5
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RESPONDING TO TEXT
What is a Brief Constructed Response?
4th and 5th grade Brief Constructed Response Format: BATS
Text Evidence (cite 2 pieces from the passage or story)
Correct Punctuation when citing text
Summary Statement
5th grade Brief Constructed Response Format: RACES
Restate the Question
Answer the Question
Cite Text Evidence
Explain why the evidence supports your answer
Summary Statement
RACES Writing Strategy Video (YouTube)
unit 1: eureka! i've got it
ELA Unit 1
UNIT 1 WEEK 1
Week 1
Essential Question: How do we get the things we need?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "A Fresh Idea"
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot: Sequence
McGraw Hill Sequence Wolf Example
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Sentence Clues
McGraw Hill Context Clues
Context Clues Practice
Close Reading: One Hen
Grammar: Sentences (types, fragments, interjections)
Fixing Sentences Sentence Fragment
Grammaropolis Interjections
Quizlet: 4 types of sentences
Vocabulary
UNIT 1 WEEK 2
Week 2
Essential Question: What can lead us to rethink an idea?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Whitewater Adventure"
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot: Problem and Solution
McGraw Hill Problem Solution
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Close Reading: Second Day, First Impression or The Chief's Blanket
Grammar: Subjects, Predicates, Appositives
Compound Subjects and Verbs Video
Khan Academy Appositives
Rags to Riches Simple Subject and Predicate Practice
Subjects and Predicate Quiz
Compound Subjects and Predicates game
Vocabulary
UNIT 1 WEEK 3
Week 3
Essential Question: How can experiencing nature change the way you think about it?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "A Life in the Woods"
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs
Close Reading: Camping with the President
Grammar: Compound Sentences, Conjunctions, Run-on Sentences
Vocabulary
UNIT 1 WEEK 4
Week 4
Essential Question: How does technology lead to creative ideas?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Fantasy Becomes Fact"
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Sequence (time order words)
Genre: Informational Text: Biography
What to look for in a biography
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek Roots
Close Reading: The Boy Who Invented TV; A Boy Called Slow; Crazy Horse's Vision
Grammar: Complex Sentences, Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions; Dependent Clause
Khan Academy Complex Sentences
Grammaropolis Conjunctions
Rags to Riches Commas
Vocabulary
A Boy Called Slow
UNIT 1 WEEK 5
Week 5
Essential Question: What are to positive and negative effects of technology?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Are Electronic Devices Good for Us"
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Author's Point of View
Genre: Persuasive Article
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin Prefixes
Close Reading: The Future of Transportation
Grammar: Run-on Sentences and Fragments
Run-on Sentence (correct punctuation)
Run-on Sentences Practice
Fixing Sentences Sentence Fragment
Run-ons and Fragments Practice
Vocabulary
UNIT 1 WEEK 6
Week 6 (Weekly Overview)
Reader's Theater: "It Couldn't Be Done"
Reading Digitally: "Take It From Nature"
unit 2: taking the next step
ELA Unit 2
UNIT 2 WEEK 1
Week 1
Essential Question: What do good problem solvers do?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: Creating a Nation
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Problem and Solution
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Definitions and Restatements
Millionaire Context Clues Game
Close Reading: Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution?
Grammar: Kinds of Nouns (common, proper, concrete, abstract)
Vocabulary
UNIT 2 WEEK 2
Week 2
Essential Question: What can you do to get the information you need?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Modern Cinderella" or The Rough-Faced Girl (Native American Cinderella)
Comprehension Strategy: Make Predictions (what will happen using text evidence)
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast
McGraw Hill Story Compare and Contrast
McGraw Hill Character, Setting, Events
Genre: Fairy Tale
Vocabulary Strategy: Simile and Metaphor
Close Reading: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Find the Nouns in the Sentence (choose nouns)
Grammaropolis Singular/Plural Noun Quizzes
Vocabulary
UNIT 2 WEEK 3
Week 3
Essential Question: How do we investigate questions about nature?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: Growing in Place
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Sequence
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin Suffixes
Close Reading: The Boy Who Drew Birds
Grammar: More Plural Nouns
Plural Nouns worksheet (f to ves)
Nouns ending in O examples
Collective Nouns worksheet
Vocabulary
UNIT 2 WEEK 4
Week 4
Essential Question: When has a plan helped you accomplish a goal?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: The Magical Lost Brocade
Comprehension Strategy: Make Predictions (what will happen using text evidence)
Comprehension Skill: Theme (what is the message, lesson, or moral of the story)
Genre: Folktale
Vocabulary Strategy: Personification
Bazillions Personification video
Personification Grammar Monster
Close Reading: Blancaflor
Grammar: Possessive Nouns-video
Possessive Nouns Games-Rags to Riches; Which is it?
Possessive Nouns printable packet of practice worksheets; answer key
Vocabulary
UNIT 2 WEEK 5
Week 5
Essential Question: What motivates you to accomplish a goal?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: A Simple Plan
Comprehension Skill: Theme
Genre: Poetry
Literary Elements: Repetition and Rhyme
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs
Homographs printable worksheet
Homographs printable packet
Close Reading: Stage Frights
Grammar: Prepositional Phrases
School House Rock video
Prepositional Phrase games: Find the Phrase; Quizlet
Vocabulary
UNIT 2 WEEK 6
Week 6 (Weekly Overview)
unit 3: getting from here to there
ELA Unit 3
UNIT 3 WEEK 1
Week 1
Essential Question: What can learning about different cultures teach us?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "A Reluctant Traveler"
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Summarize: how video
Comprehension Skill: Theme
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Cause and Effect
Close Reading: They Don't Mean It!
Grammar: Action Verbs
Vocabulary
UNIT 3 WEEK 2
Week 2
Essential Question: How can learning about nature be useful?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Survivaland"
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill: Theme
Genre: Fantasy
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Close Reading: Weslandia
Grammar: Verb Tenses
Ice Cream Talk (choose verbs)
Vocabulary
UNIT 3 WEEK 3
Week 3
Essential Question: Where can you find patterns in nature?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Patterns of Change"
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek Roots
Close Reading: The Story of Snow
Grammar: Main Verb (action) and Helping Verbs
Complete Verb (Verb Phrase) Rags to Riches Game
Complete Verb (Verb Phrase) Worksheet
Progressive and Perfect Tense definitions with examples
Vocabulary:
UNIT 3 WEEK 4
Week 4
Essential Question: What benefits come from people working as a group?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Gulf Spill Superheroes"
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Strategy: Latin Roots
Close Reading: Winter's Tail
Grammar: Linking Verbs
Vocabulary
UNIT 3 WEEK 5
Week 5
Essential Question: How do we explain what happened in the past?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "What was the purpose of the Inca's Strange Strings?"
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize (how to write)
Comprehension Skill: Author's Point of View (the quiz mentioned at end doesn't work)
Genre: Persuasive Article
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Close Reading: Machu Picchu: Ancient City
Grammar: Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs Online Practice
Irregular Verbs Practice Quiz
Vocabulary
UNIT 3 WEEK 6
Review
unit 4: it's up to you
ELA Unit 4
WEEK 1
Week 1
Essential Question: What kinds of stories do we tell? Why do we tell them?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "How Mighty Kate Stopped the Train"
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Comprehension Skill: Point of View
Genre: Tall Tales
Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonym Games
Concentration (challenging)
Matching (challenging)
Rhyme Time (make sure to read the directions at the top; this one will make you think)
Antonym Games
Close Reading: Davy Crockett Saves the World
Grammar: Pronouns and Antecedents
Vocabulary:
WEEK 2
WEEK 3
Week 3
Essential Question: What can people do to bring about a positive change?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Frederick Douglass Freedom's Voice"
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize (how to write)
Comprehension Skill: Author's Point of View (the quiz mentioned at end doesn't work)
Genre: Biography
Close Reading: Rosa
Grammar: Pronoun-Verb Agreement
Vocabulary
unit 5: what's next
ELA Unit 5
WEEK 1
Week 1
Essential Question: What experiences can change the way you see yourself and the world around you?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "Miguel in the Middle"
Comprehension Strategy: Make Predictions
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast Settings
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Comparison
Close Reading: Ida B
Grammar: Clauses (independent and dependent)
Compare and Contrast Settings example
Independent and dependent clause video
Clauses worksheets (print and practice)
Clauses worksheet
WEEK 2
Week 2
Essential Question: How do shared experiences help people adapt to change?
Reading/Writing Workshop book: "The Day the Rollets Got Their Moxie Back"
Comprehension Strategy: Make Predictions
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast Characters
Compare and Contrast Characters practice
Genre: Historical Fiction
John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith
Scarlet Stockings Spy by Trinka Hakes Noble
Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Susan Slade
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Idiom song
Idioms game
Idioms practice worksheets
Close Reading: Bud, Not Buddy
Grammar: Complex Sentences
Vocabulary:
other reading websites
READING
Smarter Balance English Language Arts/Literacy sample items
Reading Comprehension Student Center Activities (parent’s guide)
One page Nonfiction reading (5th grade)
One page Nonfiction reading (4th grade)
North Carolina end of 5th grade reading test (practices reading passages and answering questions)
DECODING
First School Years
Word Level (decoding and phonics resources, word lists, long vowels, letter patterns, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, etc.)
Sentence Level (nouns, verbs, adjectives, punctuation practice)
Text Level (printable worksheets for practicing reading skills, parent information)
Tips for Teaching Word Recognition (parent information)
Syllabication Activities (activities to do at home using books your child is reading)
Syllable Lessons and Games (video tells you how to divide words and games for you to practice)
Dividing Syllables (phonics word lists)
Poem Pack (poems that focus on a vowel pattern where you can Hear It, Read It, Sound Search, Find the Word, or Print It)
Long Vowels Sounds (printable activities)
Which Word Has the Same Vowel Sound?
YEAR OF THE BOAR AND JACKIE ROBINSON
Chinese New Year Information
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
Read Alouds (various levels)
King, Jr.
Love Will See You Through (written by his niece)
Martin Luther King III intro
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King III
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Back of the Bus (Rosa Parks Story)
Ruby Bridges
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (shorted version)
Ruby Bridges Goes to School My True Story by Ruby Bridges
Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
Other Activists
As Fast as Words Could Fly Mason Steele, 13 year-old typist
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story (Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to ride a carousel in Baltimore with support of black and white protesters.)
Malala's Magic Pencil (Pakistani education activist girl)
Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage (right to vote)
Elizabeth Leads the Way Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
Brave Girl Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike (Ukrainian Clara Lemlich fought for better working conditions)
How to Draw: MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Washington, DC