Grade 5 - Writing Unit - Saskatchewan Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 5 - Writing Unit - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 5 Writing unit in the Saskatchewan 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 outcomes and indicators related to writing in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum (ELA).

There are 393 activity sheets that are aligned to cover the outcomes in the Saskatchewan Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the goals, outcomes, and indicators are taught.

This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars/mentor texts for students to use to formulate success criteria so they can improve their writing quality. Moreover, we’ve scaffolded the skills involved with producing quality writing to ensure all students can progress.

Included in this resource are the outcomes within the goals below:

Compose and Create (CC) – write to present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of text forms.

Assess and Reflect (AR) – reflect on writing abilities and set personalized goals related to writing.

Some of the concepts 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
• Word choice – how word choice affects our writing voice
• Improving sentences with descriptive word choice
• What is fluent writing?
• 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
• Writing a persuasive letter
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Story elements – characterization activities: creating characters in humour, adventure, and fantasy stories
• Characterization – what characters say, what they do, and what others say about them
• Character development – how a change or event causes a character to evolve
• Narrative structure – 5 main parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
• Using quotations in narratives – dialogue
• Adding dialogue to short stories
• Understanding persuasive writing
• Activity – creating a persuasive poster
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Conducting surveys to gather information that supports their opinion
• 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 – 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
• 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
• Reconstructing texts – translating texts from one form to another – e.g., letter to news report, infographic to story
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

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