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Grade 5

• Literacy Foundations

  • 5.LF.1
  • 5.LF.3
  • 5.LF.4
  • 5.LF.5
  • 5.LF.8
  • 5.LF.9
  • 5.LF.9.a
  • 5.LF.9.b
  • 5.LF.9.c
  • 5.LF.10
  • 5.LF.10.a
  • 5.LF.11
  • 5.LF.12
  • 5.LF.12.a
  • 5.LF.12.b
  • 5.LF.12.c
  • 5.LF.12.d
  • 5.LF.12.e
  • 5.LF.13
  • 5.LF.14
  • 5.LF.15
  • 5.LF.16
  • 5.LF.17
  • 5.LF.18
  • 5.LF.19
  • 5.LF.20
  • 5.LF.21
  • 5.LF.22
  • 5.LF.23
  • 5.LF.23.a
  • 5.LF.23.b
  • 5.LF.24
  • 5.LF.24.a
  • 5.LF.24.b
  • 5.LF.25
  • 5.LF.26
  • 5.LF.26.a
  • 5.LF.26.b
  • 5.LF.26.c
  • 5.LF.26.d
  • 5.LF.26.e
  • 5.LF.27
  • 5.LF.28
  • 5.LF.29
  • 5.LF.29.a
  • 5.LF.29.b
  • 5.LF.30
  • 5.LF.31
  • 5.LF.32
  • 5.LF.33
  • 5.LF.34
  • 5.LF.35
  • 5.LF.36
  • 5.LF.37
  • 5.LF.38
  • 5.LF.38.c
  • 5.LF.39
  • 5.LF.39.a
  • 5.LF.39.b
  • 5.LF.39.c
  • 5.LF.39.d
  • 5.LF.39.e
  • 5.LF.39.f
  • 5.LF.40
  • 5.LF.40.c
  • 5.LF.41

• Standards

  • 5.R1
  • 5.R2
  • 5.R3
  • 5.R4
  • 5.R5
  • 5.R6

Alabama ELA Standard: 5.LF.26

Analyze how two or more texts address similar topics in diverse media and formats, including graphics, live and/or recorded performances, and written works.

Halloween Worksheets

Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Robot Writing: Acropolis

One painting of ruins. Three robots. Three pieces of writing. Who wrote it best?

Robot Writing: The Bridge

One painting of a bridge. Three robots. Who wrote it best?

Robot Writing: Orchestra

Read three pieces of writing from three different robots based on a beautiful painting and decide who wins!

Paradox: Rebuilding A Ship

What if we completely rebuild something slowly? What if we completely rebuild it all at once? Is it still the same thing?

Thinking With Art: Head Down

One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.

Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Self Portraits: Pointillism

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Academic Love Letters

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?

Depth and Complexity: 📈 Trends

Has something been changing recently? What might be causing that? What are the effects?

Depth and Complexity: 📚 Across Disciplines

No topic is an island! With the 📚 Across Disciplines prompt, students note connections within and across multiple fields.

Depth and Complexity: ⏳ Change Over Time

Want to get students thinking about how a topic has changed or might change in the future? The ⏳ Change Over Time thinking tool is just what you need!

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

For Teachers

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Better Stories Part 1: The Big Idea

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.