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.5.5

Students will analyze story structure and how story elements relate to one another in a fiction text

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Component Code

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Standard(s)

 

LA.5.5.1

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. 5.RL.5
 

LA.5.5.2

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. 5.RI.5
 

LA.5.5.3

Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. 5.L.2d
 

LA.5.5.4

Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style. 5.L.3a

Academic Vocabulary: cause/effect, problem/solution, text structure, historical, compare, contrast, distinguish, similarities, differences

Content Vocabulary: plot,setting,character, trait, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion, resolution, conflict, antagonist, protagonist, syllable, line, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile , metaphor, imagery