Grade 5 - Reading Comprehension - Manitoba Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 5 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Manitoba Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 5 Reading Comprehension unit in the Manitoba 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all elements, grade band descriptors, and elaborations related to reading comprehension in the grade 5 Manitoba Language (ELA) curriculum. There are 356 pages for students to master the skills they need to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this resource are the elaborations within the elements below:

Language as Sense Making – using reading comprehension strategies to read a variety of complex texts

Language as System – understanding the text patterns, features, and structures used within a variety of text forms

Language as Exploration and Design – using research skills to extend understanding of texts

Language as Power and Agency - reading other points of view/perspectives, justice, equity, fairness

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.

Some of the concepts 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
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, bias
• Implicit and explicit perspectives in letter writing
• Letters to the editor – determining the opinions of others and their supporting arguments
• 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
• Story genres – fantasy, humour, and adventure
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• 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
• 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
• Expository texts – how to guides
• 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
• Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

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

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.