5th Grade Reading
Skills Agenda
3rdNine Weeks
Text: McGraw-Hill; Reading Wonders
Vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, strategies and skills will be taught with the close reading selections.
Vocabulary:
Robust Common Core Standard: L.5.6 – Acquire and use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.
Week 1: Unit 3 – Week 3: Greek Roots [L.5.4b]
Week 2: Unit 3 – Week 4: Latin Roots [L.5.4b]
Week 3: Unit 3 – Week 5: Context Clues [L.5.6]
Week 4: Unit 3 – Week 6: Research Week
Week 5: Unit 4 – Week 1: Synonyms and Antonyms [L.5.5c]
Week 6: Unit 4 – Week 2: Adages and Proverbs [L.5.5b]
Week 7: Unit 4 – Week 3: Prefixes and Suffixes [L.3.4b]
Week 8: Unit 4 – Week 4: Context Clues [L.5.4a]
Week 9: Unit 4 – Week 5: Simile and Metaphor [RL.5.4]
Comprehension:
Week 1: Unit 3 – Week 3:
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details [RI.5.2]
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions [RI.5.3]
Genre: Expository Text [RL.4.7]
Week 2: Unit 3 – Week 4:
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details [RI.5.2]
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions [RI.5.3]
Genre: Expository Text [RL.4.7]
Week 3: Unit 3 – Week 5:
Skill: Author’s Point of View [RI.6.6]
Strategy: Summarize [RI.5.2]
Genre: Persuasive Article [RL.5.8]
Week 4: Unit 3 – Week 6:
Research Week
Week 5: Unit 4 – Week 1:
Skill: Point of View [RI.5.6]
Strategy: Visualize [RI.5.1]
Genre: Tall Tale [RL.5.4]
Week 6: Unit 4 – Week 2:
Skill: Point of View [RI.5.6]
Strategy: Visualize [RI.5.1]
Genre: Mystery [RL.5.5]
Week 7: Unit 4 – Week 3:
Skill: Author’s Point of View [RI.5.8]
Strategy: Summarize [RI.5.2]
Genre: Biography [RL.5.7]
Week 8: Unit 4 – Week 4:
Skill: Author’s Point of View [RI.5.8]
Strategy: Summarize [RI.5.2]
Genre: Expository Text [RL.4.7]
Week 9: Unit 4 – Week 5:
Skill: Theme [RL.5.2]
Literary Elements: Stanza and Meter [RI.5.1]
Genre: Lyric and Free Verse [RL.4.5 ]
Fluency:
Week 1: Unit 3 – Week 3: Rate and Accuracy [RF.5.4c]
Week 2: Unit 3 – Week 4: Rate [RF.5.4b]
Week 3: Unit 3 – Week 5: Expression and Phrasing [RF.5.4b]
Week 4: Unit 3 –Week 6: Research Week
Week 5: Unit 4 – Week 1: Expression [RF.5.4b]
Week 6: Unit 4 – Week 2: Rate and Accuracy [RF.5.4c]
Week 7: Unit 4 –Week 3: Phrasing [RF.5.4b]
Week 8: Unit 4 – Week 4: Accuracy and Expression [ RF.5.4c]
Week 9: Unit 4 – Week 5: Expression and Phrasing [RF.5.4b]
Research and Inquiry:
Week 1: Unit 3 – Week 3: Research Animal Patterns Found in Nature [W.5.7]
Week 2: Unit 3 – Week 4: Research People Who Work as a Team [W.5.7]
Week 3: Unit 3 – Week 5: Write a Summary [SL.5.4]
Week 4: Unit 3 –Week 6: Research Week
Week 5: Unit 4 – Week 1: Create an Outline [W.5.9]
Week 6: Unit 4 – Week 2: Write a Summary [SL.5.4]
Week 7: Unit 4 – Week 3: Create a Research Plan [W.5.7]
Week 8: Unit 4 –Week 4: Write and Present a Summary [W.5.7]
Week 9: Unit 5 – Week 5: Write a Summary of a Famous Speech [W.5.7]
Text Connections:
[RL.5.9] Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Students will have reading logs that need to be signed nightly. The purpose of the reading log is to make sure that students are reading AR books. Remember that the AR requirement this nine weeks is 10 points on the books in their reading range. Reading 20 minutes each night will help meet this requirement and help strengthen your child to become a more fluent reader.
5th Grade Reading Team:
Stacy Washington______
Gina Williams______
Felisha Reid______
Crystal Segres______