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.5.7 |
Students will analyze literature to compare and contrast stories with the same genre, theme, or topic. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
LA.5.7.1 |
Determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem and summarize the text. |
5.RL.2 |
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LA.5.7.2 |
Identify how the characters respond to change or how the speaker reflects upon a topic. |
5.RL.2 |
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LA.5.7.3 |
Determine the structure of the text, identifying chapters, scenes, stanzas, and patterns in a story, or poem. |
5.RL.5 |
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LA.5.7.4 |
Describe how the narrator or speaker’s point of view influences events in the text. |
5.RL.6 |
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LA.5.7.5 |
Utilize visual clues and illustrations to provide understanding. |
5.RL.7 |
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LA.5.7.6 |
Compare and contrast stories and characteristics of the same genre. (fairy tale, historical and realistic fiction, folktale). |
5.RL.9 |
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LA.5.7.7 |
Distinguish literary elements of foreshadowing and flashback when constructing evidence to support specific details in the text. |
5.RL.5 5.W.9a |
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LA.5.7.8 |
Read fluently with accuracy to support comprehension. Read grade level prose and poetry with purpose. |
5.RF.4b |
Academic Vocabulary: summarize, identify, illustration, visual clues, implied, debatable, text evidence, analyze, similarities/differences |
Content Vocabulary: theme, character, point of view, character traits, compare/contrast, problem/solution, sequence, foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, cliffhanger, moral |