Grade 5
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Language
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Reading: Fluency
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Reading: Informational
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Reading: Literature
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Speaking & Listening
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Writing
CCSS ELA Standard: 5.RL.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Summarize In Haiku: Power
Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? Now do it from inside a character’s head. Then once more, following the power.
Shrinking A Summary
Can your students shrink a whole story down to one sentence? Every cut reveals what is truly essential.
Writing Summaries in Haiku
Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.