Ms. Krachun’s Wild Readers 

Newsletter 5th Grade Language Arts 

February 26-March 6

Ms. Krachun’s 5th grade ELA will finish  Unit 3: Craft and Structure in Informational Texts. In Lesson 14, you will learn to analyze accounts of the same topic. You will focus on comparing the different points of view each text represents. We will also continue figurative language, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. This is the LAST lesson of Unit 3. 

Writing- We will begin learning to write a literary analysis. We will study a mentor text and unpack our prompt and start reading the sources. In grammar, we are learning about shifts in verb tenses. 

Academic Vocabulary

Account, analyze, point of view, firsthand account, secondhand account

Spelling Words

Attain, contain, detain, entertain, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitor, habit, habitat, inhibit, maintain, obtain, prohibit, retain, sustain

Vocabulary Words

Commanding, doctrine, commerce, promenade, punctually, melancholy, solemn, dictate

Important Dates

Progressive Verb Tenses Quiz Tuesday, March 3

Lesson 14 Check for Understanding Friday, March 6

Spelling test and spelling due Friday, March 6

UNIT 3 test Monday, March 9

MARCH MADNESS READING CHALLENGE STARTS March 2!!!