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What Is Fifth Grade Learning In Language Arts?
Unit 1: Genre Study and Short Stories
We will be reading many different stories that cover a variety of genres including historical fiction, plays, biographies, humor, and fantasy. We will be learning how to write a reading response using the RACE structure: Restate the question, Answer the question, Cite the evidence, and Explain how the evidence supports your answer.
Unit 2: Number the Stars
We will be reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. We will be looking into character development, suspense, historical fiction as a genre, and critical think about the choices our characters make. We will really focus on what theme is and what themes we see throughout the novel.
Unit 3: Nonfiction Unit
We will what the different text structures and text features included in nonfiction texts. We will practice how to go back into our documents to find text evidence and support our answers. We will continue to work on RACE responses to nonfiction passages.
Unit 4: Book Club
Students will get a choice of a variety of novels in the classroom for their book club. They will work with 2-3 other students to read, discuss, and write about their book. They will be responsible to stay on top of their reading, assignments, and the final project.
Unit 5: Mystery and The Westing Game
We will be looking at mystery and the elements it includes to entice an audience. This unit includes our novel study of The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The class will enjoy trying to solve the mystery and build on their inferencing and predicting skills. I do not have a full class set of this novel, so it would be appreciated if students could bring in their own copy.
Unit 6: Poetry
In May, we will be reading different kinds of poems in class. We will look at short poems, silly poems, and poems that tell a story. We will be discussing the emotions that are conveyed, the structures of poems, and the word choices of poets to help express their ideas.
Unit 1: Narrative Writing
Students will work on stretching their writing to create stories, whether personal narratives or fictional short stories. We will be working on skills such as descriptive language, sequencing, and use of quotation marks and dialogue.
Story 1: Personal Narrative
Story 2: Creative short story of their choosing
Story 3: Halloween scary story (focus on adding suspense and emotion to writing)
Unit 2: Nonfiction Essay
Students will be working on building a five paragraph essay. We will work on how each paragraph should be structured, how to research and add facts from reliable sources to our body paragraphs, and using formal language to convey confidence in our writing.
Essay 1: Animal Information
Essay 2: Topic of Student Choice
Unit3: Persuasive Writing
Students will take the structure and organization from our nonfiction essays and learn how to add opinion without losing formality. Students will study examples of arguments and conduct their own research. We will look at how arguments can be made beyond the format of essays as well.
Essay 1: Should we have uniforms?
Essay 2: Topic of Student Choice
Unit 4: Poetry
Students will spend each day in May looking at different forms of poetry and trying it out for themselves. The last week of school students will choose 2 of their favorite poems to share in our class "Poetry Jam".
Wordly Wise Routine
Monday: We go over words as a class and have some time to work on it in class
Thursday: Students turn in sections A-D
Friday: Students turn in section E and test is in the afternoon (so that students can ask question in advisory before test)
Unit 1: Parts of Speech
Students will have lessons and homework that covers nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
Unit 2: Verb Tenses
Students will learn the past, present, and future tense as well as simple, progressive, and perfect tenses
Unit 3: Subjects and Predicates
Students will learn how to diagram sentences based on the complete or simple subjects and predicates
Unit 4: Run-ons, Fragments, or Complete sentences
Students will use their knowledge of subjects and predicates to identify if a sentence qualifies as a run-on, fragment, or a complete sentence
There will be occasional quizzes covering the grammar topic covered in class