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Grade 5

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 5.C.1
  • 5.C.1.A
  • 5.C.2
  • 5.C.2.A
  • 5.C.3
  • 5.C.3.A
  • 5.C.3.B
  • 5.C.4
  • 5.C.4.A

• Language Usage

  • 5.LU.1
  • 5.LU.1.A
  • 5.LU.1.C
  • 5.LU.2
  • 5.LU.2.D

• Research

  • 5.R.1
  • 5.R.1.B
  • 5.R.1.C
  • 5.R.1.E
  • 5.R.1.F

• Reading Informational Text

  • 5.RI.1
  • 5.RI.1.C
  • 5.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 5.RL.1
  • 5.RL.1.B
  • 5.RL.1.C
  • 5.RL.2
  • 5.RL.2.B
  • 5.RL.2.C

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 5.RV.1
  • 5.RV.1.E
  • 5.RV.1.F
  • 5.RV.1.H
  • 5.RV.1.I

• Writing

  • 5.W.1
  • 5.W.1.A
  • 5.W.1.B
  • 5.W.1.C
  • 5.W.1.D
  • 5.W.2
  • 5.W.2.A
  • 5.W.3
  • 5.W.3.A
  • 5.W.3.B

Virginia ELA Standard: 5.W.1

Modes and Purposes for Writing

Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date

Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Holiday Emoji Story 🍪

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🚗

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Thanksgiving Photo Writing

Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Ultimate (or Inception) Tic Tac Toe

What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Academic Love Letters

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.

Better Stories Part 5: Plot Structure

Ever read a student’s story that was just event after event after event and then a very sudden ending? They lack an understanding of a plot’s structure. With the help of Finding Nemo, I break down how to set up a well-structured plot.

Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict

If your students’ stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it’s time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.

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…

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.