WHat your child will learn

The following is a list of units your student will work through the year. Click on each title to read a document with main concepts of each unit and strategies you can use to support them at home. For identification of which unit your child is working in, contact your child's school or teacher.

• Launching Readers Workshops with Characters
• Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Theme
• Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction
• Argument and Advocacy: Researching Debatable Issues
• Westward Expansion
• Fantasy Book Clubs

Supporting Your Child

In addition to games and activities suggested in the documents above here are additional resources as well interactive games on the internet that can support further development.

How to Keep Reading with your Child is a quick article with tips on continuing to read with your child once they reach fourth or fifth grade. This article can be found here.

For interactive games, click on an image below to access an interactive game to support specific to skills essential to mastery of concepts in fifth grade.

Additional Resources

Below are several links to videos to help gain understanding into your child's development in reading throughout their fifth grade year.