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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
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  • 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.W.2.e

Use appropriate language, vocabulary, and sentence variety to convey meaning; for effect; and to support a tone and formality appropriate to the topic and audience.

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?

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Depth and Complexity: 👄 Language of the Discipline

Imagine a construction worker who doesn’t know the name of a screwdriver or a doctor who can’t remember what to call your neck. It’s pretty hard to communicate well without knowing the 👄 Language of the Discipline!

Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 2

We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.

Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.