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Reading Closely, Writing Clearly: Grade 5 English Language Arts

Grade 5 · 351 pages · 71 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year grade 5 ELA course built on close reading of literature and informational text, with writing in all three modes woven through every unit. Students learn to quote text accurately, compare characters and points of view across stories, trace how chapters and stanzas build meaning, and integrate information from two texts on the same topic. Every unit ends with a piece of writing that uses the text students just read as evidence. Passages are public domain or original and provided in full. All units align to CCSS Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Language standards for grade 5.

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Reading Closely, Writing Clearly: Grade 5 English Language Arts

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Unit 1: Reading with Evidence: Quoting Accurately8 lessons
  1. 1.The difference between an exact quotation and a paraphrase
  2. 2.Quotation marks marking the boundaries of an author's exact words
  3. 3.Relevance of quoted evidence to a specific claim about a character
  4. 4.The logical connection between a quotation's exact words and the claim it supports
  5. 5.The difference between strong and weak quoted evidence for the same claim
  6. 6.An inference about character or event in a previously unseen short story, supported by exact quotation
  7. 7.The definition of evidence in the context of textual claims
  8. 8.A partner's claim and quoted evidence stated during discussion
Unit 2: Whose Story Is It? Comparing Characters9 lessons
  1. 9.Exact quotation of character dialogue (mechanics: quotation marks, no paraphrase)
  2. 10.The taught two-question evidence check (what does this show; does it match the claim)
  3. 11.The difference between a character's trait, motivation, and reaction
  4. 12.Textual evidence of a specific character trait
  5. 13.Differing character reactions to a shared event
  6. 14.Cause and effect between two characters' actions and motivations
  7. 15.Context-clue strategy for unfamiliar character-description vocabulary
  8. 16.Written comparison of two characters using quoted evidence, applied to an unread story
  9. 17.The evidence standard: one exact quotation per claim, applied to someone else's draft
Unit 3: Whose Eyes Are We Seeing Through? Point of View10 lessons
  1. 18.First-person vs. third-person narration signaled by pronoun use (I/we vs. he/she/they)
  2. 19.The limitation of first-person narration on access to other characters' inner thoughts
  3. 20.The difference between an outside narrator's stance and a character's own perspective inside a third-person text, applied to the taught example itself
  4. 21.The difference between an outside narrator's stance and a character's own perspective inside a third-person text
  5. 22.Gaps in a first-person narrator's knowledge about another character's motives
  6. 23.Differences in narrated details caused by a shift in point-of-view character, in the mentor text
  7. 24.Definitions of point of view, first-person narration, and third-person narration
  8. 25.The set of details available to a specific alternate point-of-view character in a planned scene rewrite
  9. 26.A rewritten narrative paragraph consistent with a specified character's point-of-view knowledge limits
  10. 27.Identification of point-of-view type and point-of-view character in an unfamiliar text
Unit 4: How the Pieces Build: Structure in Stories and Poems9 lessons
  1. 28.The terms chapter, stanza, scene, and section as named structural units
  2. 29.Chapter and stanza boundaries in a specific short story cycle and 3-stanza poem
  3. 30.The 4-step checklist itself (name what part 1 withholds, name part 2's reveal, state the change, quote the reveal)
  4. 31.The effect of withheld information across two sequential chapters in the mentor short story cycle
  5. 32.The shared function of stanza breaks and chapter breaks as meaning-building boundaries
  6. 33.Quoted textual evidence supporting a claim about structural meaning-change between two parts
  7. 34.The causal relationship between two sequential structural units in a self-selected text, supported by textual evidence
  8. 35.The relative strength of two competing explanations for a suspense effect in an untaught short story excerpt
  9. 36.The effect of a specific author's structural choice on reader suspense, in peer discussion format
Unit 5: Two Texts, One Topic: Integrating Information8 lessons
  1. 37.Exact quoting from an informational text (retrieved from Unit 1)
  2. 38.Note-taking sorted by source across two informational texts
  3. 39.Paraphrasing a stated fact
  4. 40.Points of agreement and disagreement between two informational texts on one topic
  5. 41.Possible reasons for disagreement between two informational sources
  6. 42.Attributing a fact to its source text by name
  7. 43.Synthesizing sourced facts from two texts into one coherent piece of informative writing
  8. 44.Completeness of source attribution in a draft informative piece
Unit 6: Building a Story: Narrative Writing with Structure9 lessons
  1. 45.Orientation elements (character, setting, time) in a narrative opening
  2. 46.Dialogue that reveals character feeling indirectly
  3. 47.An earned ending that resolves the narrative's stated problem
  4. 48.Scene-to-scene structure of an original narrative
  5. 49.Character development through dialogue and description across scenes
  6. 50.A revised ending that resolves the story's stated problem, guided by feedback
  7. 51.Dialogue punctuation and correlative conjunction usage
  8. 52.Transition words signaling scene-to-scene shifts in time or setting
  9. 53.A complete original narrative applying orientation, scene structure, and earned resolution
Unit 7: Taking a Side: Opinion Writing with Reasons8 lessons
  1. 54.An opinion claim written as a complete sentence
  2. 55.The distinction between a claim, a reason, and evidence
  3. 56.The link between one reason and one piece of supporting evidence
  4. 57.Linking words that connect reasons to evidence
  5. 58.The sequence of reasons within an opinion essay
  6. 59.A concluding statement that follows from the argument
  7. 60.The strength of the link between reason and evidence across two arguments built from identical facts
  8. 61.A five-paragraph opinion essay structure
Unit 8: Explaining Clearly: Informative Writing and Year-End Synthesis10 lessons
  1. 62.The definition and function of citing a source
  2. 63.The parts of a grouped, cited paragraph shown in a worked example
  3. 64.Grouping related information into paragraphs
  4. 65.The relationship between a topic sentence and its supporting facts
  5. 66.Agreement and disagreement between two informational texts on one topic
  6. 67.The exact-quoting procedure applied to informative writing
  7. 68.Introductions that preview upcoming sections
  8. 69.Conclusions that state why the information matters
  9. 70.Overall structure planning for an informative essay from novel two-source material
  10. 71.Completeness of source-naming for each cited fact in a draft

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