5th Grade

ELA TAG

Language Arts Talented and Gifted classes follow the grade level curriculum with differentiated educational experiences. Throughout the year, we will focus on the following units:

  • Building a Reading Life
  • Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes
  • Tacking Complexity: Moving up Levels of Nonfiction
  • Author Study: Reading Like a Fan
  • Argument and Advocacy: Researching Debatable Issues
  • Learning Through Reading: Westward Expansion, American Revolution, etc.
  • Fantasy Book Clubs: The Magic of Themes and Symbols

Students adding their input to our social contract. To build our social contract, we asked the following questions: How do you want to be treated by your classmates? How do you want to be treated by Mrs. B.? How do you think Mrs. B. wants to be treated? How will we treat one another when there is a conflict.

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A quick game of Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes with affirmations helps us to build community!

5th User's Manual

Students created personal User's Manuals to communicate their learning styles, values, pet peeves, etc.