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Grade 5

• Language

  • 5.L.1
  • 5.L.1.a
  • 5.L.1.e
  • 5.L.2.a
  • 5.L.2.b
  • 5.L.2.c
  • 5.L.2.d
  • 5.L.2.e
  • 5.L.2
  • 5.L.3.a
  • 5.L.3
  • 5.L.4.b
  • 5.L.4.c
  • 5.L.4
  • 5.L.5.a
  • 5.L.5.b
  • 5.L.5.c
  • 5.L.5
  • 5.L.6

• Reading: Fluency

  • 5.RF.3
  • 5.RF.4.b

• Reading: Informational

  • 5.RI.1
  • 5.RI.2
  • 5.RI.3
  • 5.RI.4
  • 5.RI.6
  • 5.RI.7
  • 5.RI.8
  • 5.RI.9
  • 5.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 5.RL.1
  • 5.RL.2
  • 5.RL.3
  • 5.RL.4
  • 5.RL.5
  • 5.RL.6
  • 5.RL.9

• Speaking & Listening

  • 5.SL.1.c
  • 5.SL.1
  • 5.SL.2
  • 5.SL.3
  • 5.SL.4
  • 5.SL.5
  • 5.SL.6

• Writing

  • 5.W.1.a
  • 5.W.1.c
  • 5.W.1
  • 5.W.2.a
  • 5.W.2.c
  • 5.W.2.d
  • 5.W.2
  • 5.W.3
  • 5.W.3.a
  • 5.W.3.b
  • 5.W.3.c
  • 5.W.3.d
  • 5.W.3.e
  • 5.W.4
  • 5.W.5
  • 5.W.7
  • 5.W.8
  • 5.W.9.a
  • 5.W.9
  • 5.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 5.L.5.a

Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season

Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.

Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Students will make this simile about stinky seaweed super specific.

Holiday Writing: Packing Crates

Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition

Is your students’ use of repetition limited to, “The girl was very, very, very fast.”? Let’s borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.