Language Arts
5th Grade Language Arts
1st Nine Weeks
Unit 1: Cultivating Reading and Writing Lives
Historical and Cultural Contexts
Strategies for Better Reading (read between the lines, predict, identify main idea)
Unit 2: Building Perspective through the Art of Literature: Poetry, Realistic Fiction, and Drama
Wizards and Pigs - Alliteration Game
Similes, Metaphors, and Hyperbole
Figurative Language - Disney Examples
Figurative Language 2015
Poetry Unit
•The Children’s Poetry Archive
•The Poetry Farm NEW!
A Symphony of Trees (Lyrical, use again for sensory language, internal rhyme, and repetition)
The Circle and the Poles (Lyrical)
About Old People (Narrative)
The Giant Jam Sandwich (Narrative)
Alliteration Poems:
Onomatopoeia Poems:
Poems with Imagery:
Personification Poems:
Humorous Examples of Personification
10 Fun Examples of Personification in Poetry
Free Verse Poem
Poems with Similes & Metaphors
Poetry Friday -- Simile and Metaphor Poems
Four‐Metaphor Poems from fifth‐grade poets
The Greatest (by Kenny Rogers)
Assignment: Science Poem Writing
2nd Nine Weeks
Unit 3: Inquiring Minds: The Study of Informational Text
Magazine Project Rubric (How it's graded)
Unit 4: The Lens of History: Acquiring and Sharing Knowledge through Research
Museum Project
3rd Nine Weeks
Unit 5: Stand Up, Speak Out: Finding Your VoiceThrough Argumentative Reading and Writing
Should There Be Zoos? A Persuasive Text
Unit 6: Living Lives of Significance: Biographies, Historical Fiction, and Memoirs
4th Nine Weeks
Unit 7: Hope and Resilience: A Study Across Genres
Unit 8: Grit and Perseverance: A Study Across Genres (Test-Taking as a Genre)
Read Out of the Dust here