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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.8

Compare and contrast the organizational structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. (E)

Who has more power: the Queen Bee or the Hive?

Who really runs the hive: the queen, or the thousands of bees around her?

Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Analyze Paragraphs: Empire State Building

Three paragraphs about the Empire State Building. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Analyze Paragraphs: Wolverines

Three paragraphs about wolverines. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

What’s In My Brain: May vs May

The word “may” can be used for possibility or permission. It’s a modal auxiliary verb!

What Would Poetry Think About Prose?

Poetry and Prose meet at a party. What would they say to each other? How would they feel about each other’s style?

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!

Content Imperatives: Paradox

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!

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!

Depth and Complexity: Patterns

Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?

Teach Non-Fiction Writing Structure With Fractals

Did you ever notice that the structure of an essay is very similar to the structure of a paragraph? Hmm…

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.