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Grade 5

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 5.CC
  • 5.CC.1
  • 5.CC.2
  • 5.CC.4
  • 5.CC.5
  • 5.CC.6
  • 5.CC.7

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 5.RC
  • 5.RC.1
  • 5.RC.2
  • 5.RC.3
  • 5.RC.4
  • 5.RC.5
  • 5.RC.6
  • 5.RC.7
  • 5.RC.8
  • 5.RC.9
  • 5.RC.10
  • 5.RC.11
  • 5.RC.12
  • 5.RC.13
  • 5.RC.14

• Reading: Foundations

  • 5.RF.1

• Writing

  • 5.W
  • 5.W.1
  • 5.W.1.a
  • 5.W.1.c
  • 5.W.1.d
  • 5.W.1.e
  • 5.W.1.f
  • 5.W.2
  • 5.W.2.a
  • 5.W.2.c
  • 5.W.2.d
  • 5.W.2.e
  • 5.W.2.f
  • 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.4.a
  • 5.W.4.b
  • 5.W.5
  • 5.W.5.a
  • 5.W.5.b
  • 5.W.5.c
  • 5.W.5.d
  • 5.W.5.e
  • 5.W.6
  • 5.W.6.a
  • 5.W.6.a.I
  • 5.W.6.b
  • 5.W.6.c
  • 5.W.7
  • 5.W.7.b
  • 5.W.7.b.I
  • 5.W.7.c

Indiana ELA Standard: 5.RC.2

Determine the theme of a story, play, or poem from details in the text, including how characters respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. (E)

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Gr 1-8

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 6

Stories with the Same Problems and Solutions

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

Gr 1-6

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Gr 1-8

Elements of The Fantasy Genre

Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.

Gr 1-8

Romeo and Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

Gr 1-8

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Writing Summaries in Haiku

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.

Gr 1-8

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Gr 1-8