5th Grade ELA
Our Mission:
The 5th grade ELA team has created this web page to allow easy access to all the accounts, materials, and practice a student might need at home. This will enable them to work at home on specific skills that are necessary for 5th grade and prepare them for 6th grade. These assignments are not required but highly recommended and beneficial to their academic success, growth, and retention of skills. If you have questions, please contact your child's ELA teacher.
1st Nine Weeks Unit
In this unit, we will be emphasizing the connections between English language arts and social studies. This unit teaches students how we learn about our past. Students explore various texts (literary and informational) to come to understand how Native Americans and global explorers laid the foundation for the United States. Students discuss why point of view is important for constructing meaning, as it changes the information that is given and how we perceive events. We will be reading The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich and Pedro’s Journal by Pam Conrad.
Standards being Taught
RF.5.3 Apply phonics & word analysis
RF.5.4 Read with accuracy & fluency
RL.5.1 Explain text evidence when reading/ inferring
RL.5.2 Analyze text to determine theme of a story,drama, poem; summarize
RL.5.3 Describe, compare/contrast story elements
RL.5.4 Determine word meaning (figurative language/literary devices)
RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator’s/speaker’s point of view influences how events are described
RI.5.1 Explain text evidence when reading/ inferring
RI.5.2 Analyze text to determine 2 or more main ideas; summarize
RI.5.3 Explain the relationship between 2 or more individuals, events, ideas, concepts in a text
Standards being Taught
RI.5.4 Determine word meaning (general & domain specific; figurative language)
RI.5.6 Analyze multiple accounts (primary/ secondary sources) of the same event/topic
RI.5.7 Interpret text features & their contribution
to text & multimedia
RI.5.9 Integrate information from several texts
W.5.1 Write opinion pieces
W.5.4 Develop & organize writing to
appropriate task
W.5.5 Plan/revise/edit
W.5.8 Gather information from multiple sources; summarize & paraphrase
W.5.10 Write over extended & short time frames for a range of tasks, purposes & audiences
Grading Weights
Language Arts
- Reading weighted 60%– reading literature and informational reading, fluency, comprehension
- Writing weighted 30% – narrative writing, opinion writing, informative writing, writing about reading, reading responses
- Word Study & Language weighted 10% – vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, spelling, Language Standards
Social Studies: all grades are weighted equally
Grades being taken
Language Arts-
- Writing Grades- 1 culminating writing task, 2 classwork response to reading tasks
- Reading Grades- cold read task, extension task, 4 Birchbark house comprehension grades
- Word Study/Language Journal- (13 entries totaling 100 points)
Social Studies-
- 4-5 map skills and early American history assignments
Challenge Do's
- USA Test Prep- work on achieving gold stars in all strands in ELA (Reading Literature, Reading Informational Text, Writing, and Language) and in 5th Grade US History
- In addition to the Challenge Do's here, students may reference the resource page
Login Information:
- account ID: obe882.
- Username: first.lastname
- Password: first and last initials, then their lunch number.
Clever
- Username: student ID (lunch number)
- Student’s Password: student ID (lunch number)
Schoology:
- In your browser, navigate to our domain, https://desotoms.schoology.com/home
- Enter your Office 365 credentials.
- Username: First initial of first name, + first initial of last name, + last 6 digits of their lunch number. Ex: If Amy King's lunch number is 1234567, her DCS User account / email address is ak234567@dcsms.org
- Password: School mascot + your date of birth (mmddyy). Ex. Your mascot is Quistors, and your birthdate is July 8, 2014, your password is Quistors070814
