Fifth Grade Literacy / ELA Curriculum

Literacy

Throughout the school year we use various resources in order to explore various types of literature.  Listed below are the reading comprehension skills and strategies that we address in order to better analyze and understand text:

text structure (overview)

text structure (nonfiction)

text structure fiction

cause and effect

context clues

inferencing / text evidence / theme

author's message

nonfiction - compare and contrast

point of view

author's point of view

main idea

summarizing

problem and solution

Language Arts

For Language Arts, we use the Being a Writer program. The writing units are as follows:

The Writing Community

Personal Narrative

Nonfiction Writing

Opinion/Persuasive Writing

Fictional Writing

Spelling and grammar quizzes are given each week.