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.5.10

Students will use poetry to increase fluency, comprehension, and structure of a text, through media presentations.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.5.10.1

Determine the speaker’s point of view and how it influences events after listening to poetry or a media presentation.

5.RL.6

5.SL.2

 

LA.5.10.2

Identify how scenes or stanzas fit together to provide overall structure and meaning.

5.RL.5

 

LA.5.10.3

Create and recite a poem specific to structure while focusing on specific relationships between particular words and sensory details to convey experiences. 

5.W.3d

5.SL.4

5.L.5c

 

LA.5.10.4

Adapt speaking to a variety of structures in poetry, with specifics to rhyme and rhythm.

5.SL.6

 

LA.5.10.5

Apply and explain the functions of conjunctions, prepositions and interjections and their function in particular sentences.

5.L.1a

 

LA.5.10.6

Use commas to separate items in a series, and set off introductory elements.

5.L.2a

5.L.2b

Academic Vocabulary: theme, text evidence, inference, summarize

Content Vocabulary: syllable, line, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile , metaphor, imagery