Grade 5 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

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

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing ideas: Text Forms and Structures as well as Comprehension. The 288 pages teach the skills and procedures in these two curriculum areas.

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 organizing ideas below:

Text Forms and Structures: taught throughout the unit, with the use of 10 different blocks of text forms, including narratives, reports, poetry, comic strips, letters, procedural writing, book reviews, persuasive writing, and biographies.

Comprehension: as students learn about the text forms and structures of different types of writing, they will practice reading comprehension skills. They will read these different text forms, and use before reading, during reading, and after reading comprehension strategies – inferencing, visualizing, predicting, summarizing, making connections, synthesizing, and questioning. We have also included an independent reading response booklet.

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
• 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

Google Lesson Slides

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

- 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.