Grade 5
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 5.W.3
Usage and Mechanics
Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Writing A Thanksgiving Letter
What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?
Punctuation Power
In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!