New York - Grade 5 English Language Arts (ELA) - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
Grade 5 – New York English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum – This bundle was created to cover the outcomes in all clusters of the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum.
There are 1350+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the English Language Arts curriculum. This comprehensive bundle contains readings, hands-on activities, true/false, diagrams, reflections, word searches and more. We’ve presented the material in a variety of text forms, including reports, news articles, blog posts, and stories. There is also a unit test and answer pages for all activities!
Reading Unit (Literary and Informational Text)
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
- Reading stamina progress charts
- 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, humor, 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
- Comparing life experiences with those of a Native American character in a story
- Analyzing the identities of characters in a variety of stories
- Science fiction story - the use of flash-forwards in narratives
- Story genres – fantasy, humor, and adventure
- Reports – Illustration styles used in different reports: realism, sketches, cartoons, outlines
- Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
- 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 – humor and imagery
- 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
- Thomas Young, Sitting Bull, Michael Jordan, and Albert Einstein biographies with prefaces and glossaries
- Activity: analyzing multimedia features (bold fonts, visuals, layout, music, colors, etc.)
- Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
- Answer pages for all activities
Reading Standards (Foundational Skills)
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Suffixes <ous>, <ious>, <al>, <ial>, <ian>, <ic>, <ical>, <ment>, <ity>, <ant>, <ent>, <ance>, <ence> and more
- Prefixes <circu>, <per>, <trans>, <ad>, <sub>, <ob>, <com>, <ex> and more
- Reading strategies: visualizing, inferencing, predicting, questioning, and summarizing
- 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 imagery
- 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” and new words to the English language – “blog”
- Formal and informal language – slang, social media texts, academic language
- Antonyms and synonyms
- Reading between the lines - inferencing
- 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
- Goals and reflection activities – spelling and reading
- Reading punctuation – pause, stop, raise tone, etc.
- Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
- Answer pages for all activities
Writing Learning Standards
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
- 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 humor, 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
Speaking and Listening Standards
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Oral Communication – Listening Strategies
- Activity: "The Paraphrase Chain"
- Activity: The Restating Relay
- Activity: Inquisitive Minds - The Question-Asking Game
- Activity: Conversational Contexts
- Activity: Speaker Says
- Activity: Respectful Language Game
- Activity: Perspective-Sharing Circle
- Activity: Cultural Oral Traditions Exploration
- Activity: Sacred Stories Symposium
- Activity: Clarifying Quests – Asking clarifying questions
- Activity: Passion Project Sharing
- Activity: Active Listening Workshop
- Activity: "Predict, Listen, and Reflect”
- Activity: Logical Storytelling Contest
- Vividly Speaking: Describing Scenes with Adverbs
- Activity: Storytelling Time Machine
- Activity: Formal vs Informal Debate
- Activity: Oral Tradition Storytelling Circle
- Activity: Reflecting on First Nation Narratives
- Activity: Book club
- Activity: Opinion Line-Up
- Activity: Vocabulary Building Competition
- Activity: Collaborative Dialogue Role-Play
- Activity: Trickster Tales Theater
- Activity: Everyday Tales Sharing
- Activity: Fairness Role Play
- Activity: The Justice Puzzle
- Activity: Talk It Up - Group Discussion
- Activity: Pitch Perfect
- Activity: "Who's Listening? Tailoring Your Message"
- Activity: Audience Awareness Role-Play
- Activity: Choral Speech Creation
- Activity: Digital Storytelling Project
- Activity: Argument Analysis
- Activity: Voice Projection Workshop
- Activity: Verbal and Non-Verbal Charades
- Activity: Expression Charades
- Activity: Gesture Guessing Game
- Activity: Understanding Emotion Through Cultural Dances
- Activity: Transition Word Treasure Hunt
This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning outcomes in the English Language Arts curriculum.
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