English Language Arts Curriculum

5th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will apply foundational skills to critically read and analyze grade level texts. Students will evaluate spoken language to compare and contrast point of view. Students will support formal writing with explanations and text evidence from multiple sources.

Outcomes and Components:

LA.5.3

Students will create, publish and present an imaginary or real piece of narrative writing using technology.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.5.3.1

Plan and write a narrative piece with a setting, introducing a narrator, and characters in a sequence that transitions logically and naturally. 

5.W.3a

 

LA.5.3.2

Create specific sensory images using adjectives and interjections for meaning, interest, and style. 

5.W.3d

 

LA.5.3.3

Determine how the author’s point of view influences how events are described.

5.RL.6

 

LA.5.3.4

Determine the structure of various texts, including stanzas, chapters, and scenes in a story or poem. 

5.RL.5

 

LA.5.3.5

Use dialogue techniques and transitional words and phrases, using concrete words and details.

5.W.3b

5.W.3c

5.W.3d

 

LA.5.3.6

Use relationships between particular words to better understand each of the words.

5.L.4a

 

LA.5.3.7

Revise and edit a narrative piece with guidance from peers and teachers. Provide a conclusion.

5.W.4

5.W.3e

 

LA.5.3.8

Use technology to demonstrate keyboarding skills .

5.W.6

Academic Vocabulary: dialogue, chapter, scene, poem, narrator,

Content Vocabulary: narrative, injection, transition words (first, next, afterwards, etc.), point of view, characters, setting, dialogue, chapter, scene, poem, narrator