LAN0500: 5th Grade Language Arts

05/01/2023 to 04/30/2024 • Modified 06/08/2023

Course Description

This language arts course emphasizes reading comprehension and integrates skills attainment from texts. Students will increase nonfiction reading comprehension by identifying the author’s organizational patterns and using the text to support opinions and conclusions. The student will expand their vocabulary using knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones and use the writing process to write in various forms, including narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Students will deliver multimodal presentations and compare/contrast various techniques used in media messages. The student will demonstrate comprehension of the research process by evaluating the information’s relevance, reliability, and credibility to create a final product.

Prerequisite

None

Schedule

Module 1: Reading and Writing Strategies

Week 1: Parts of Speech and Reading Response
Week 2: Reading Strategies
Week 3: Plagiarism
Week 4: Writing Strategies

Module 2: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

Week 5: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 1-16
Week 6: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 17-32
Week 7: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 33-48
Week 8: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 49-56
Week 9: Review Week

Module 3: Types of Writing

Week 10: Types of Writing
Week 11: Compare and Contrast

Module 4: Esperanza Rising and Grammar

Week 12: Esperanza Rising Beginning
Week 13: Esperanza Rising Chapters 5-8
Week 14: Esperanza Rising Chapters 9-12 and Grammar

Module 5: Esperanza Rising, Text Structure and Features

Week 15: Esperanza Rising Ending
Week 16: Text Structure
Week 17: Text Features
Week 18: Review Week

Module 6: Fantastic Mr. Dahl

Week 19: Fantastic Mr. Dahl Chapters 1-3
Week 20: Fantastic Mr. Dahl Chapters 4-7
Week 21: Fantastic Mr. Dahl Chapters Nine Through Postscript

Module 7: Story Elements

Week 22: Literary Devices
Week 23: Character
Week 24: Genres
Week 25: W-R-I-T-E
Week 26: Story Elements Wrap-Up
Week 27: Quarter Review Week

Module 8: Number the Stars

Week 28: Number the Stars Chapters 1-3
Week 29: Number the Stars Chapters 4-7
Week 30: Number the Stars Chapters 8-11

Chapters One Through Eleven

Week 31: Number the Stars Chapters 12-15
Week 32: Number the Stars Ending
Week 33: Number the Stars Characters

Module 9: Number the Stars Ending

Week 34: Beginning Poetry
Week 35: More Poetry
Week 36: Quarter Review Week