Language Arts
L.A. Goals:
To build the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to be college and career ready, fifth grade students will read widely and deeply from a range of high-quality, increasingly challenging fiction and nonfiction from different cultures and time periods. They will respond analytically to grade level literary and informational sources, conduct research projects, and write multi-paragraph stories and essays. By writing and speaking daily, they will gain control over the conventions of grammar, usage, capitalization and punctuation as a means of communicating clearly and will have the opportunity to engage in rich, structured conversations on grade level topics and texts. Fifth grade students will:
- Expand, combine and reduce sentences to improve meaning, interest and writing style.
- Build knowledge of academic language.
- Identify and judge evidence that supports an author’s particular argument to change the reader’s point of view.
- Integrate information from several print and digital sources to answer questions and solve problems.
- Write opinions, offering reasons and providing facts and examples logically grouped to support the writer’s point of view.
- Write stories with developing plots that include dialogue, description, and effective pacing of the action.
- Report on a topic or present an opinion that follows a logical sequence of ideas with supporting facts and details.
- Assignments will usually be graded using a point system of 0-3. 0 means the assignment wasn't done. 1 means some of the assignment wasn't done and problems were not correct. 2 means the assignment was finished but 1/3 ish of the problems were not correct. 3 means that the assignment was finished and most of the problems were correct. Urah Compose is a 60 point with half the teacher and half the UT Compose score. Other essays are graded on a 4 point rubric. Projects, reading logs, tests, and oral reading are percentages.
Wonders Units Overview
August - October Unit 1
October - November Unit 2
December - Unit 3
January - Unit 4
February - Unit 4 - Unit 5
March - April - Unit 5 - Unit 6
October - November Unit 2
December - Unit 3
January - Unit 4
February - Unit 4 - Unit 5
March - April - Unit 5 - Unit 6
Resources
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Utah Compose
Utah Compose