Theme: Exploration, Real and Imagined

Essential Question: What do people, both real and imagined, learn from exploring their world?

Literature:

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative languages such as metaphors and similes. RL.5.4 

• Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. RL. 5.5 

• Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., a graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, [or] poem). RL.5.7 

Informational:

• Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point (s). RI.5.8 

Language:

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. L.5.5 

Speaking and Listening:

• Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, or orally. SL.5.2 

Foundational:

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.5.3 

  • A. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. RF.5.4 

  • A. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. 

  • B. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

  • C. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. 

Theme: Renaissance Thinking

Essential Question: How does creativity change the world?

Literature:

• Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g. mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics. RL.5.9 

Informational:

• Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. RI.5.2 

• Integrate information from several texts on their same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgably. RI. 5.9 

Language:

• Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, and poems. L.5.3(b) 

• Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others. SL.5.1(c) 

Foundational:

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.5.3 

  • A. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. RF.5.4 

  • A. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. 

  • B. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

  • C. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.