Grade Five/Language Curriculum for E2 students

Great Lessons
The Story of Writing
Beowulf/Odyssey or Canterbury Tales
Reading
SRA
Silent, independent reading with mini-lesson, response journal/teacher conferences (Reader’s Workshop)
Read-aloud with discussion of fiction/nonfiction elements
Fiction

• Interprets and evaluates fiction
• Makes predictions
• Compares and contrasts books/stories
• Plot analysis

Nonfiction

• Identifies facts/opinions
• Compares and contrasts two essays/articles

Poetry

• Interprets figurative language

Vocabulary
Junior Great Books
Writing

• Writer’s Workshop

Fiction

• Dialogue
• Narrative
• Description

Nonfiction

• Four Star essay
• Writes a procedure
• Letter, newspaper, biography
• Writes a persuasive account
• Writes a report
• Writes a narrative account
• Writes a response to literature

Spelling
Keyboarding
Research skills

• Note taking; formulating questions; defining hypothesis

Speaking

• Student reads well out loud
• Presents information
• Shares writing

Drama
Word Study

• Etymology
• Skyscraper Material
• Homophones
• Homonyms

Grammar

• Types of Sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
• Parts of Speech/Grammar Symbols
• Sentence diagramming/Sentence building
• Review of fourth grade material
• Prepositional phrases
• Predicate nominative
• Predicate adjective