ELA Class
2023-2024 ELA Curriculum
Our class is currently reading Maniac Magee written by Jerry Spinelli.
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Things to Remember:
- Students are required to complete at least 8 Achieve 3000 articles in school every month.
- Individualized Daily Reading (IDR) is essential to Lexile growth, vocabulary development, and general reading comprehension. All students MUST come to school with an IDR book every day. Students will not receive full credit for their daily classwork if they arrive unprepared to class.
- Students will complete a Common Assessment (CA) and a Writing Task (WT) upon the completion of each unit.
Language Arts:
A student will be able to:
- Build fluency and apply grammar skills.
- Learn the strategies good writers use and apply the writing process to a variety of writing forms.
Vocabulary:
A student will be able to:
- It gives students the ability to say what he or she means. By having several words at their disposal for describing an event or emotion, students can be explicit when sharing their ideas and opinions.
- It helps students understand what other people are saying and what she/he is reading. Vocabulary is the foundation for comprehension. Unfamiliar words become holes in the text, preventing students from completely understanding what he or she has just read.
- It bolsters students ability to grasp ideas and think more logically. The greater number of words students have, the more he or she can interpret ideas from others, and express their own ideas.
- It boosts students power of persuasion. Having a rich vocabulary will help students communicate in a more engaging way. Relying on one or two words to describe an idea will be repetitive and not as persuasive, as relying on a vocabulary of 10-15 similarly descriptive terms.
- It helps students make a good impression on others. How articulate students constitute a big part of the impression she or he makes on others.
***All assignments, test dates, and classwork will be posted on Google Classroom. ***
Standards Taught and Assessed:
Marking Period 1:
- RL 5.1, RI 5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RL 5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text (e.g. how characters interact).
- RL 5.4, RI 5.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
- RL 5.5 - Explain how a series of chapters , scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
- RL. 5.6 - Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
- W.5.3 - Write narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- W.5.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Marking Period 2
- RL 5.7- Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text. (i.e. graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, or poem).
- RI 5.2- Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- RI 5.8- Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which points.
- W 5.1- Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- W.5.1a - Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
- W.5.1b - Produce logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details from text(s), quote directly rom text when appropriate.
- W.5.1c - Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses
- W.5.1d - Provide a conclusion related to the opinion presented.
Marking Period 3
- RL 5.9- Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
- RI 5.3- Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
- RI 5.5- Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
- W. 5.2- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
- W. 5.8 - Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
Marking Period 4
- RI 5.6- Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
- RI 5.7- Draw information from multiple print or digital resources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
- RI 5.9- Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
- W.5.7- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- W.5.8- Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- W.5.9- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.