Comprehensive Curriculum Unit Overview

Fifth Grade

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Five Weeks

Informational Articles

Reports
·  Read strategies for gathering information from nonfiction articles and reports
·  Informational text identified
·  Different styles and ways of organizing text
·  Write and present an article and a report
·  Edit and analyze article and report
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature
·  Grammar instruction /

Five Weeks

Tall Tales and Legends

·  Read and respond to tall tales and legends
·  Study of story elements
·  Write and present an original tale or legend
·  Edit and evaluate tale or legend
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature
·  Grammar instruction /

Five Weeks

Biography and Autobiography
·  Read, research, and write nonfiction
·  Read and write a biography or autobiography
·  Research online and bound sources related to biographical and autobiographical sketch
·  Edit and proofread
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature
·  Grammar instruction /

Six Weeks

Folktales

·  Reading and responding to folktales
·  Traditional tales
·  Fairy tales
·  Fables
·  Tall tales
·  Legends
·  Folklore in everyday life
·  Storytelling
·  Practicing of oral delivery skills
·  Editing and evaluating
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature /

Six Weeks

Short Stories – Adventure

·  Comprehension strategies of the short story genre
·  Read a variety of adventure short stories
·  Recognize characteristics of short stories
·  Sequence events
·  Summarize and paraphrase
·  Compare and contrast literary elements (conflict, characterization, and theme) in narrative texts
·  Venn diagrams and other visual representations
·  Context clues and structural analysis
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature /

Five Weeks

Poetry

·  Reading to comprehend and interpret classic and contemporary poetry
·  Characteristics of poetry defined
·  Study of forms and elements of lyric and narrative poems
·  Utilization of the writing process and recitation of selected poems
·  Use of figurative language (similes, metaphors, personifications, hyperboles, and idioms)
·  Define vocabulary within context of the literature