Welcome to ELA (English Language Arts).
We follow the Common Core Curriculum for 5th grade ELA. We follow 4 different units:
Unit 1 - Building a Reading Community
- This focuses on helping to create a community of respectful and mutually-supportive readers, and to build the procedures and routines for reading instruction. The ultimate goal is to provide an environment in which students can “read widely and deeply from a broad range of high quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts and to comprehend at the high end of their grade level’s text complexity band independently and proficiently
Unit 2 - Earth A Fine Balance
- Students will use strong textual evidence, connections to their own lives and their background knowledge to make inferences and to draw conclusions about what they read.
- Students will respond to a variety of text by drawing conclusions and using textual evidence to analyze what they read and understand how it connects to their own lives.
- Students will analyze the text to better understand the author’s viewpoint/attitude and purpose.
Unit 3 - Faces of Immigration
- Students will use strong textual evidence, connections to their own lives and their background knowledge to make inferences and to draw conclusions about what they read.
- Students will develop a coherent understanding of topics or issues by integrating information from a variety of media or formats.
- Students will write to make meaning of what they read.
Unit 4 - Making a Difference
- Students will understand that authors use the narrator and speaker (point of view) to control plot development, character and central message or theme
- Students will understand that author's make intentional choices about the development and interaction of story/drama elements to impact readers in a certain way
Unit 1 - Building a Reading Community
- This focuses on helping to create a community of respectful and mutually-supportive readers, and to build the procedures and routines for reading instruction. The ultimate goal is to provide an environment in which students can “read widely and deeply from a broad range of high quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts and to comprehend at the high end of their grade level’s text complexity band independently and proficiently
Unit 2 - Earth A Fine Balance
- Students will use strong textual evidence, connections to their own lives and their background knowledge to make inferences and to draw conclusions about what they read.
- Students will respond to a variety of text by drawing conclusions and using textual evidence to analyze what they read and understand how it connects to their own lives.
- Students will analyze the text to better understand the author’s viewpoint/attitude and purpose.
Unit 3 - Faces of Immigration
- Students will use strong textual evidence, connections to their own lives and their background knowledge to make inferences and to draw conclusions about what they read.
- Students will develop a coherent understanding of topics or issues by integrating information from a variety of media or formats.
- Students will write to make meaning of what they read.
Unit 4 - Making a Difference
- Students will understand that authors use the narrator and speaker (point of view) to control plot development, character and central message or theme
- Students will understand that author's make intentional choices about the development and interaction of story/drama elements to impact readers in a certain way