Grade 5 - Alberta Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 5 Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Writing Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Activity – creating “Secret Agent” notes
• Personal voice in writing
• Word choice – how word choice affects our writing voice
• Improving sentences with descriptive word choice
• What is fluent writing?
• Revision – is my writing fluent?
• Writing using different sentence lengths – simple versus compound/complex sentences
• Writing using figurative language – simile, metaphor, and analogy
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), supporting details, conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in narratives – dialogue
• Adding dialogue to short stories
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Understanding persuasive writing
• Activity – creating a persuasive poster
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Confirmation bias in persuasive writing
• Research process – questioning, gathering, organizing, and recording
• Ethical use of research – asking permission, citing, fair and accurate representation
• Report writing – a quick guide
• Writing reports – using the facts provided to organize a report
• How to research effectively
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Report Writing – writing strong introductions and conclusions
• Report – coherence in report writing: why diversity in schools is important
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, rhyming poems
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Activity – rhyme time analysis
• Cursive writing – Limerick
• Examining and removing bias in reviews
• Practicing summaries in book review writing
• Publishing a book review
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Biographies – cross curricular connections: Hippocrates (human body), Einstein, and Chief Pontiac
• How to cite where we find research – bibliography
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making global and local inferences, visualizing
• Cultural text forms – creation stories and songs
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, bias
• Implicit and explicit perspectives in letter writing
• Voice in writing – use of cohesive ties and different sentence structures
• Narratives – use of figurative language: personification, similes, metaphors, anthropomorphism, humour, and imagery
• Perspective in narratives – first-person, second-person, and third-person and advantages/disadvantages of each
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Science fiction story - the use of flash-forwards in narratives
• Drama story – character emotions, evolving characters as well as identifying themes in plots
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Prediction story activity – finishing a story using strong predictions
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (government, human body)
• Character analysis – explain the decisions made by characters and analyze their character traits
• Round vs. flat characters - explore differences in character types
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Finding implicit and explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – headings, subheadings, bold words, hyperlinks, captions, tables, graphs, etc.
• Photo essay - analyze a photo essay
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Activity – group work summarizing
• Use of graphs, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – humour and imagery
• Lyric poetry
• Assignment – finding poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Bias in book reviews
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• How images, graphics, and visuals contribute to biographies
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and a preface to understand a biography
• Louis Riel, Terry Fox, and Albert Einstein biographies with prefaces and glossaries
• Answer pages for all activities

Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Suffixes , , , , , , , , , , , , and more
• Prefixes , , , , , , , and more
• Sentence structure: complete, fragments, compound, types, and clauses
• Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions
• Subject-verb agreement
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Independent/dependent clauses
• Direct objects for nouns
• Noun-pronoun agreement
• Pronouns, intensive pronouns, and reflexive pronouns
• Possessive pronouns, subject pronouns, and object pronouns
• Present/past/future tense
• Run-on sentences
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Building complex sentences and subordinating conjunctions
• Figures of speech – metaphors, similes, and analogies
• Using colons and semicolons
• Decoding strategies – chunking and syllable splitting
• Reading with expression and intonation
• Proper adjectives and capitalization
• Correlative conjunctions
• Commas for introductory phrases, commas with interjections, and commas with direct address
• Appositives and participles with the use of commas
• Contractions
• Using quotation marks in dialogue
• Researching word origins
• How have words changed over time – “woke”
• New words to the English language – “blog”
• Antonyms and synonyms
• Cursive writing
• Abbreviations
• Using parentheses to indicate additional, separate, or less important words or numbers
• Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 5 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 5, Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.