Literacy Grade 5

• Oral language/fluency:  Students will communicate in complete and clear sentences on a specific topic.

• Vocabulary:  Students will utilize tier 2 words in their speaking and writing.

• Developing an interpretation:  Students will draw conclusions about the author’s purpose for choosing a genre or for including or omitting specific details in text.  (CMT obj. B-2)

• Developing an interpretation:  Students will use stated evidence from the text to draw and/or support a conclusion.  (CMT obj. B-3)

• Making reader/text connections: Students will select, synthesis and/or use relevant information within a written work to write a personal response to the text.  (CMT obj. C-2)

• Examining the content and structure:  Students will select, synthesis and or use relevant information within a written work to extend or evaluate the work.  (CMT obj. D-2)

• Fluency:  Students will read with appropriate speed and prosody.

• Students will spell words with short vowels, long vowel spellings and r controlled vowels.

Planning:

• Students will willingly participate in the writing lesson and articulate ideas for an expository piece.
• Students will use an answer frame and an essay organizer to write an expository piece (from simple paragraph to five paragraph piece).

Drafting

• Students will use graphic organizers to plan their expository piece.
• Students will include elaboration using FEED strategies (facts, experiences, examples and details).

Revising and Editing

• Students will use appropriate punctuation in their writing.  Students will use the right words in their writing.

Sharing:

• Students will willingly share writing with peers.

Reflecting:

• Students will willingly talk about their writing piece during a conference.
• Students will respond to writing of peers.
• Students will use a checklist and rubric to evaluate and score writing.

Writing Content

Ideas: 

• Students will understand the strategies needed to write an expository essay.
• Students will include elaborative details to explain the main idea.

Organization: 

• Students will use an essay organizer to plan their expository piece. 
• Students will write sentences that include facts and details that answer who, what, where, when and why.

Word Choice:

• Students will use precise words to give details.
• Students will use transitional words.

Voice

• Students will use words that sound like the writer.

Fluency

• Students will write several sentences fluently.

Conventions

• Students will keep appropriate spacing.
• Students will include a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end.
• Students will include proper nouns.

• Oral language/fluency:  Students will communicate in complete and clear sentences on a specific topic.

• Vocabulary:  Students will utilize tier 2 words in their speaking and writing.

• Forming a general understanding:  Students will determine the main idea (non-fiction) or theme (fiction) within a written work.  (CMT obj. A-1)

• Making reader/text connections:  Students will make connections between the text and outside experiences and knowledge.  (CMT obj. C-1)

• Examining the content and structure:  Students will analyze and evaluate the author’s craft, including the use of literary devices and textual elements.  CMT obj. D-1)

• Fluency:  Students will read with appropriate speed and prosody.

• Students will spell words with r controlled vowel combinations and /ow/, /oi/, /aw/, /s/ and /j/ spellings
• Students will spell words with silent letters.
• Students will spell words with double consonants. 
• Students will spell homophones.

Planning:

• Students will willingly participate in the writing lesson and articulate ideas for an informational report and compare/contrast piece.
• Students will use graphic organizers to plan their ideas.

Drafting

• Students will use notes and graphic organizers to write their piece.   

Revising and Editing

• Students will include simple and compound subjects, simple and compound predicates, simple, compound and complex sentences, prepositional phrases, clauses, types of sentences, combined sentences and abstract, concrete and object nouns in their writing. 
• Students will revise fragments and run on sentences in their writing.

Sharing:

• Students will willingly share writing with peers.

Reflecting:

• Students will willingly talk about their writing piece during a conference.
• Students will respond to writing of peers.
• Students will use a checklist and rubric to evaluate and score writing.

Writing Content

Ideas: 

• Students will write an informational report.
• Students will write a compare/contrast essay.

Organization: 

• Students will take nonfiction text and paraphrase ideas. 
  
  • Students will use notes to write the informational report.
• Students will complete a graphic organizer for the compare/contrast essay.
  
  • Students will write a compare/contrast essay.

Word Choice:

• Students will use precise words to give details.
• Students will use transitional words.

Voice

• Students will use words that sound like the writer.

Fluency

• Students will write several sentences fluently.

Conventions

• Students will keep appropriate spacing.
• Students will include a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end.
• Students will include proper nouns.

• Oral language/fluency:  Students will communicate in complete and clear sentences on a specific topic.

• Vocabulary:  Students will utilize tier 2 words in their speaking and writing.

• Developing an interpretation: Students will indentify or infer the author’s use of structure/organizational patterns.  (CMT obj. B-1)

• Developing an interpretation:  Students will use stated evidence from the text to draw and/or support a conclusion.  (CMT obj. B-3)

• Examining the content and structure: Students will demonstrate an awareness of an author’s or character’s customs and beliefs included in the text.  (CMT obj. D-3)

• Fluency:  Students will read with appropriate speed and prosody.

• Students will spell plural words.
• Students will add endings to words that end in y and e.
• Students will spell compound words.
• Students will spell abbreviations.

Planning:

• Students will willingly participate in the writing lesson and articulate ideas for a variety of poems.
• Students will explore, reflect and respond to variety of poems.

Drafting

• Students will collect ideas and explore figurative language to use in a variety of poems.

Revising and Editing

• Students will use appropriate verb tense, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs in their writing. 
• Students will ensure that the subject(s) and verb(s) in sentence(s) agree in number.

Sharing:

• Students will willingly share writing with peers.

Reflecting:

• Students will willingly talk about their writing piece during a conference.
• Students will respond to writing of peers.
• Students will use a checklist and rubric to evaluate and score writing.

Writing Content

Ideas: 

• Students will explore a variety of poems.
• Students will write a variety of poems.

Organization: 

• Students will use patterns and formats to create a variety of poems. 

Word Choice:

• Students will use precise words to develop images, feelings or a message.
• Students will write poems that include figurative language, descriptive words and feeling words.

Voice

• Students will use words that sound like the writer.

Fluency

• Students will write several sentences/phrases fluently.

Conventions

• Students will have an opportunity to manipulate line breaks and play with poetic structure.
• Students will include appropriate capital letters and punctuation.

• Oral language/fluency:  Students will communicate in complete and clear sentences on a specific topic.

• Vocabulary:  Students will utilize tier 2 words in their speaking and writing.

• Forming a general understanding:  Students will select and use relevant information from the text in order to summarize events and/or ideas in the text.  (CMT obj. A-3)

• Forming a general understanding:  Students will use information from the text to make a prediction based on what is read.  (CMT obj. A-4)

• Fluency:  Students will read with appropriate speed and prosody.

• Students will spell words with prefixes and suffixes.
• Students will spell homophones.
• Students will spell contractions.
• Students will spell words that require the doubling of final consonants.