Obion County Schools
5th Grade Reading Curriculum Guide 2013-2014
Unit 1: School Spirit!Stage 1 – Desired Results
Transfer
Students will be able to independently use the reading to understand that we never stop learning.
Meaning
Understandings
Students will understand that …
(L abbreviation indicates Journeys’ lesson. Example: L1=Lesson 1)
Phonics:
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding words. (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5)
Vocabulary:
Effective readers use context to infer meaning of unknown words.
(L1 ,L 3)
Use prefixes to analyze meaning of complex words. (L2)
Vocabulary is built through a wide variety of reading. (L4, L5)
Fluency:
Fluent readers are able to read a text with appropriate expression.
(L1)
Fluent readers are able to read a text with appropriate accuracy.
(L2)
Fluent readers are able to read a text with appropriate pacing,
accuracy and expression. (L3, L4, L5)
Comprehension:
The structure of a text and using specific strategies aides in
comprehension. (L1)
A story’s problem, solution, and plot events are connected through
characters and their actions. (L1)
Understanding the structure of a text and its graphic features to / Recommended Essential Questions
Students will keep considering …
Lesson 1:
What funny events lead Louis to Mrs. Jewls’s classroom?
(Journeys’ EQ)
How can summarizing help you understand what you are
reading?
How does understanding and analyzing story elements aid in
comprehension?
Lesson 2:
How can graphics help you learn about space? (Journeys’
EQ)
How do text and graphic features help you locate important
information?
How does asking questions help you better understand the
text?
Lesson 3:
What can our differences teach us? (Journeys’ EQ)
How does comparing and contrasting the characters help you
better understand the text?
How can using a graphic organizer help you make inferences
and predictions?
Lesson 4:
What events lead a team to learn Double Dutch?
(Journeys’ EQ)
How can sequencing the events of the story help you
clarify your comprehension?
How can using a graphic organizer help you monitor your
understanding?
aide in comprehension. (L 2, L4)
Insightful reading requires analysis and synthesis to draw conclusions
and develop insight. (L 3, L4)
Effective readers bring various experiences to making meaning from
text. (L 5) / Lesson 5:
How does a character learn an important lesson? (Journeys’
EQ)
How does analyzing the characters help you determine the
theme of the story?
How does visualization help you better comprehend the story?
Instructional Materials:
Student book - paired selections Leveled Readers Ready-Made Stations
Language Support Cards Vocabulary in Context Cards Journeys’ Fluency Materials
Lesson 1: A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Common Core State Standards / Teachers must choose appropriate learning targets from list below.
RF 5.3.NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most
common prefixes and derivational suffixes / Students will know and be able to…
Phonic/Decoding:
Focus: VCV Syllable Pattern
Use VCV pattern to decode words.
Vocabulary:
Focus: Using Context
Use context clues to predict, clarify, and/or expand word
meanings and concepts.
Fluency:
Focus: Expression
Read aloud with grade-appropriate fluency and expression.
(e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries,
glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to
find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the
precise meaning of key words and phrases / Use tone, volume, and pace to read with expression.
Comprehension:
Focus Skill: Story Structure
Focus Strategy: Summarize
Summarize main ideas using facts/details/ideas
Summarize plot and message
Identify the major actions that define the plot and how
actions lead to conflict or resolution
Fluency
1.4.2 Apply fluency to
enhance comprehension / RF 5.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency
to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary.
Comprehension
2.1.7 Apply
comprehension monitoring
strategies during and after
reading:
Summarize grade-level
informational/expository
text and literary/narrative
text.
2.2.3 Understand and
analyze story elements. / RL 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend literature, including stories, dramas,
and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text
and explain how they are supported by key
details.
RI 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend informational texts, including
history/social studies, science, and technical texts,
at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity
band independently and proficiently.
RL 5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or
poem from the details in the text, including how
characters in a story or drama respond to
challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects
upon a topic; summarize the text.
RL 5.3 Compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story or drama,
drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how
characters interact).
RL 5.6 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point
of view influences how events are described.
Obion County Schools
5th Grade Reading Curriculum Guide 2013-2014
Lesson 2: Ultimate Field Trip 5: Blasting Off to Space AcademyAcquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Common Core State Standards / Teachers must choose appropriate learning targets from list
below.
Students will know and be able to…
Phonics/Decoding
Focus: Vowel Sounds in VCV Syllable Patterns
Use the vowel sounds in the VCV syllable pattern to
decode words.
Vocabulary:
Focus: Prefixes non-, un-, dis-, mis-
use prefixes to determine the meaning of unknown words
Fluency:
Focus: Accuracy
orally read grade level text with accuracy
Comprehension:
Focus Skill: Text and Graphic Features
Focus Strategy: Question
generate and answer questions using questioning
strategies about the text
locate information using text features
use organizational features and electronic sources to
access information
RF 5.3 NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most
common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
L5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning words and phrases based
on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly
from a range of strategies.
a. Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships
and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning
of a word or phrase.
b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and
Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a
word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
RF 5.3 NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most
common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
RF 5.4 NEW Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary.
Comprehension
2.1.6 Apply
comprehension monitoring
strategies to understand
fiction, nonfiction,
informational text, and
task-oriented text: monitor
for meaning, create
mental images, and
generate and answer
questions.
2.2.2 Apply understanding
of printed and electronic
features to locate
information and
comprehend text. / RL 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend literature, including stories, dramas,
and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend informational texts, including
history/social studies, science, and technical texts,
at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity
band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure
(e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect,
problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or
information in two or more texts.
RI 5.7 Draw information from multiple print or digital
sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an
answer to a question quickly or solve a problem efficiently.
Lesson 3: Off and Running
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Common Core State Standards
RF 5.3. NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most
common prefixes and derivational suffixes. / Teachers must choose appropriate learning targets from list below.
Students will know and be able to…
Phonics/Decoding:
Focus: VCCV Pattern
Recognize and decode words with the VCCV pattern.
Vocabulary:
Focus: Multiple-Meaning Words
Identify words that have different meanings in different
content areas
Fluency:
Focus: Intonation
Orally read grade level text with accuracy in a manner that sounds like natural speech.
Comprehension:
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast
Focus Strategy: Infer/Predict
Find similarities and differences within and between texts
Make, support,and confirm text predictions and
inferences
L 5.6 Acquire and use accurately gradeappropriate
academic, and domain-specific
words and phrases, including those that signal
contrast, addition, and other logical relationships
(e.g., similarly, moreover, in addition).
RF 5.4 NEW Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally withaccuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as
RL 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text.
RL 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend literature, including stories, dramas,
and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend informational texts, including
history/social studies, science, and technical texts,
at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity
band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text.
RL 5.9 Compare and contrast stories in the same
genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on
their approaches to similar themes and topics.
RI 5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure
(e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect,
problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information
in two or more texts.
Lesson 4: Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Common Core State Standards
RF 5.3. NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. / Teachers must choose appropriate learning targets from list below.
Students will know and be able to…
Phonics/Decoding:
Focus: Diagraphs in Multisyllable Words
Recognize diagraphs in multisyllabic words
Decode words with diagraphs.
Vocabulary:
Focus: Suffixes –ion, -tion
Use a variety of reference materials to find, confirm, and
clarify word meaning, pronunciation, syllabication,
synonyms, antonyms, and parts of speech.
L 5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning words and phrases based
on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly
from a range of strategies.
c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries,
glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to
find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the
precise meaning of key words and phrases.
RF 5.4NEW Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
RL 5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts,
at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.3 Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
RI 5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. / Fluency:
Focus: Phrasing: Pauses
Adjust reading rate to match difficulty and purpose of
text.
Comprehension:
Focus Skill: Sequence of Events
Focus Strategy: Monitor/Clarify
Explain the use of steps in a process.
Monitor for meaning by identifying where and why
comprehension was lost and use comprehension repair
strategies to regain meaning
Lesson 5: Elisa’s Diary
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Common Core State Standards / Teachers must choose appropriate learning targets from list below.
Students will know and be able to…
Phonics/Decoding:
Focus: Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
Identify stressed and unstressed syllables to decode words.
Vocabulary:
Focus: Suffixes –ly, -ful
Use a variety of reference materials to find, confirm, and
clarify word meaning, pronunciation, syllabication,
synonyms, antonyms, and parts of speech.
Fluency:
Focus: Stress
Orally read grade level text with accuracy in a manner
that sounds like natural speech.
Comprehension:
Focus Skill: Theme
Focus Strategy: Visualize
State the main idea, theme, and message and give textbased
evidence for support.
Describe mental images that occurred during reading,
through drawing, writing, or verbal means
RF 5.3. NEW Know and apply grade-level phonics
and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
L 5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly
from a range of strategies.
c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
RF 5.4 NEW Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive reading.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
RL 5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from the details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
RL 5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RI 5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details.
Obion County Schools
5th Grade Reading Curriculum Guide 2013-2014
Unit 2: Wild EncountersStage 1 – Desired Results
Transfer
Students will be able to independently use their reading to learn to understand that nature deserves our respect.
Meaning
Understandings
Students will understand that …
(L abbreviation indicates Journeys’ lesson. Example: L1=Lesson 1)
Phonics:
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding words. (L6, L7, L8, L9, L10)
Vocabulary:
Use antonyms in vocabulary (L6)
Expanding our vocabulary enriches comprehension (L7, L10)
Effective readers use context to infer meaning of unknown words
(L8)
Effective readers use word origins to infer meaning of unknown
words (L9)
Fluency:
Orally read grade level text with expression in a manner that sounds
like natural speech. (L6)
Fluent readers are able to read a text with appropriate pacing,
accuracy, and expression (L7, L8, L9, L10)
Comprehension:
Find similarities and differences within and between texts using textbased
evidence (L6)
Use questioning strategies to check understanding of cause-andeffect
relationships (L6)
Insightful reading requires analysis and synthesis to draw conclusions
and develop insight (L7, L8, L9, L10)
Effective readers bring various experiences to make meaning from
text (L7) / Recommended Essential Questions
Students will keep considering …
Lesson 6:
What effect can on person have on a stranded sea turtle?
(Journeys’ EQ)
How can using a graphic organizer help you identify cause
and effect relationships?
How does asking and answering questions help you better
understand the text?
Lesson 7:
Can nature bring out the best in a character? (Journeys’ EQ)
How can you use the text to better understand a character’s
motives and feelings?
How does visualization help you better understand the story?
Lesson 8:
What persuades us to protect the environment? (Journeys’ EQ)
How do the story’s details help you identify the author’s
purpose?
How can a graphic organizer help you understand persuasive
writing?
Lesson 9:
What conclusion can we draw about the sea? (Journeys’ EQ)
How do the text details help you draw conclusions and make
generalizations?
How do characters’ actions and details help you make predictions and inferences?
Lesson 10:
What are the most important ideas about cougars? (Journeys’
EQ)
How does identify the main ideas and details help you comprehend the story?
How does organizing the main ideas and details help you clarify your understanding?
Instructional Materials:
Student book - paired selections Leveled Readers Ready-Made Stations
Language Support Cards Vocabulary in Context Cards Journeys’ Fluency Materials