LAN0500: 5th Grade Language Arts

05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 07/19/2024

Course Description

This language arts course emphasizes the integration of skills attainment from texts. Students will explain plot development and conflict resolution and differentiate between first and third-person points of view. Fifth-grade students will have an increased emphasis on nonfiction reading by identifying the author’s organizational patterns and using the text to support opinions and conclusions. Students will continue to expand their vocabulary using knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. Students will use the writing process to write in a variety of forms, including narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Students will deliver multimodal presentations and compare/contrast a variety of techniques used in media messages. The student will demonstrate comprehension of the research process by evaluating the relevance, reliability, and credibility of information collected to create a final product. The student will define the meaning and consequences of plagiarism.

Prerequisite

None

Schedule

Module 1: Reading & Writing Strategies

Week 1: Reading Fiction
Week 2: Comprehending Fiction
Week 3: Reading Nonfiction
Week 4: Comprehending Nonfiction

Module 2: Types of Writing

Week 5: Narrative Writing
Week 6: Narrative Writing Continued
Week 7: Persuasive Writing
Week 8: Persuasive Writing Continued
Week 9: Review Week

Module 3: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

Week 10: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 1-16
Week 11: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 17-32
Week 12: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 33-48
Week 13: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Chapters 49-56

Module 4: Esperanza Rising & Grammar

Week 14: Esperanza Rising Beginning
Week 15: Esperanza Rising Chapters 5-8
Week 16: Esperanza Rising Chapters 9-12 and Grammar
Week 17: Esperanza Rising Ending
Week 18: Review Week

Module 5: Text Structure, Text Features & Expository Writing

Week 19: Text Structure
Week 20: Text Features
Week 21: Expository Writing
Week 22: Expository Writing Continued

Module 6: Story Elements

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 Chapters 1-11

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

Module 9: Number the Stars Ending

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

Module 10: Poetry & Review

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