Grade 5 - Ontario Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

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

Foundations of Language Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Complete sentences versus fragments
• Simple versus compound sentences
• Listening strategies
• Suffixes: -ing, -ed, -ly, -ness, -able, -less, -ful, -ment, -tion, -ive, -ious, -al, -ance, -ite, and many more
• Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, mis-, inter-, anti-, non-, super-, de-, bi-, tri-, co-, and many more
• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
• Direct objects for nouns
• Pronouns, intensive pronouns, and reflexive pronouns
• Run-on sentences
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Building complex sentences and subordinating conjunctions
• Figures of speech – personification, hyperbole, metaphors, similes, idioms, alliteration
• 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
• Activity – clarifying questions: asking good questions when communicating orally
• Cursive writing – Connection to Strand D – Composition
• Activity – Active Listening Workshop
• Activity – Inquisitive Minds – the question asking game
• The Paraphrase Chain – paraphrasing and restating in oral communication
• Activity - Vocabulary Building Competition: adjectives and adverbs
• Activity – Gesture Guessing Game and Expression Charades
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Composition (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
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body, 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 our narratives – dialogue
• 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
• 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
• Cursive writing practice pages (PDF only)
• 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 literary devices: 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
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Indigenous storytelling – histories, creation stories, culture, and relationships
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (government, human body)
• 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.
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• 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
• 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

Google Lesson Slides

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