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 write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. | ||
Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
LA.5.10.1 |
Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. | 5.W.3a | |
LA.5.10.2 |
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. | 5.W.3b | |
LA.5.10.3 |
Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events. | 5.W.3c | |
LA.5.10.4 |
Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. | 5.W.3d | |
LA.5.10.5 |
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. | 5.W.3e | |
LA.5.10.6 |
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. | 5.W.4 | |
LA.5.10.7 | With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. | 5.W.5 | |
LA.5.10.8 | With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting. | 5.W.6 | |
LA.5.10.9 | Draw evidence from literary texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. | 5.W.9a |
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 |