FIFTH GRADE
Monday-Friday; 8:45-10:45AM
March 20-April 14
Review standards/skills.
March 14-17
Reading: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent; Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described
Grammar: Verb tenses
Writing: Narrative
March 6-9
Reading: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent; Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described
Grammar: Verb tenses
Writing: Narrative
February 27-March 3
Reading: Relationships/interactions between two or more individuals, ideas, or events.
Grammar: Verb tenses/Shifts in verb tenses
Writing: Narrative
February 22-24
Reading: Relationships/interactions between two or more individuals, ideas, or events.
Grammar: Perfect Verb tense
Writing: Narrative
February 13-16
Reading: Explain the relationships between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text.
Grammar: Compare/contrast varieties of English dialect.
Writing: Narrative.
January 30-February 10
ESOL CLASSES DUE TO ESOL TESTING
January 9-27
Reading: Determining theme; summarizing a text.
Grammar: Greek and Latin roots.
Writing: Narrative.
December 19-22
Reading: Figurative language.
Grammar: Review
Writing: Informational essays.
December 12-16
Reading: Figuarative language.
Grammar: Review
Writing: Informational essays.
December 5-9
Reading: Figurative language; academic vocabulary
Grammar: Expand, combine, reduce sentences; dialect; spelling.
Writing: Informational essays.
November 28-December 2
Reading: Figurative Language
Grammar: Idioms, adages, and proverbs.
Writing: Informational essays.
November 14-18
Reading: Context clues, academic language, vocabulary
Grammar: Transitional phrases; synonyms, antonyms, and homographs
Writing: Informational essays.
November 9-11
Reading: Understanding context clues.
Grammar: Synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
Writing: Informational essays.
October 17-November 4
Reading: Understanding text structure/comparing and contrasting the overall structure of two texts.
Grammar: Context clues.
Writing: Informational essays.
October 3-14
Reading: Explaining how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Grammar: Transitional phrases and the use of commas correctly; context clues.
Writing: Opinion/persuasion essays.
September 26-30
Reading: Analyzing how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.; understanding information from multiple print or digital sources to find an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
Grammar: Transitional phrases and the use of commas correctly.
Writing: Opinion/persuasion essays.
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