Sr. Noor’s Grade 5- English Unit Design: Theme 1 Identity Awareness
Students discover their own unique personalities as they gain a strong foundation for developing healthy relationships.
Unit Title: What are our Stories? / Unit Length: Sept. – Oct. (week 1 - 7)Unit Components
Back to School / Expression / Talents / Inspirations / Imagine / WisdomComprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
•Reading Inventory
•Historical fiction
•Fluent text reading
•Predicting
•Inferring
•Questioning / Comprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
•Visualize
•Rhyme, rhythm
•Figurative language (similes)
•Author’s Viewpoint
•Character Traits
•Conclusions
•Read aloud / Comprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
• Visualize
• Questions
•Cause and effect
•Metaphors
•Fact and opinion
•Compare and contrast
•Sequence
•Library skills / Comprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
• Questions
• Text-to-self connections
•Character relationships
•Theme
•Headings and captions
•Symbolism
•Generalizations
•Collect and organize information / Comprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
• Visualize
•Text-to-self connections
•Plot
•Categorize and classify
•Describe setting
•Literary forms
•Diagrams / Comprehension and Study Skills/Strategies
•Questions
•Visualize
•Mood and tone
•Character’s conflicts
•Flashback
•Dialogue and narration
•Main idea and supporting details
Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
•Writing Inventory
•T1 What does freedom mean to you?
•T2 Write 3 details from the story in sequence. / Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
•Common and proper nouns
•Literary responses
•Strong sentences
•Descriptive paragraphs
•Poetry / Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
•Common and proper nouns
•Regular and irregular verbs
•Descriptive Character Sketch / Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
• Regular and irregular verbs
• Adjectives
•Literary Responses
•Strong Sentences
•Powerful Paragraphs / Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
• Adjectives
•Adverbs
• Literary Responses
•Dialogue
•Narrative Historical Fiction (Memoir) / Writing/Grammar/
Punctuation
•Adverbs
•Pronouns
• Prepositions
• Literary Responses
•Powerful Paragraphs
Word Study
•Context clues
•Read-aloud vocabulary
•Express
•Talent
•Inspire
•Imagine
•Wisdom / Word Study
•Words with Long a and Long e
•Synonyms for good/great / Word Study
• Words with Long i and Long o
•Synonyms for said
•prefixes
•Sensory words / Word Study
• Words with /oo/ and /yoo/
•Synonyms for many
•Suffixes / Word Study
• Words with broad o sound
•Synonyms for few
•Greek roots / Word Study
• Words with short vowels
•Review synonyms for good/great, said, many, few
•Prefix, base word, suffix
Writing
Diagnostic Assessment / Writing
Read Short Paragraphs
Read all about Amusement Parks / Writing
Expository & Narrative Book Covers
Pieces for comparison (expository)
Compare two expository pieces / Writing
Fact Gathering
General or specific?
Writing a descriptive segment. / Writing
Opinion writing (persuasive)
Fact Gathering
Main Ideas: Overlapping or distinct? / Writing
Identify story critical objects, characters, and settings in Narrative work.
Assessments/Evidence:
•Demonstrate understanding of objectives in class work, homework, formative assessment quizzes, and summative assessments.
•Student Self-Assessment: Use the Unit Design map to self-assess.
Resources/Materials:
•Voices Reading Theme 1: Identity Awareness
(A Comprehensive Literacy and Character Development Program)
• English Workbook Plus
• Empowering Writers
• Practice Skills Workbook
• Supplemental Materials –
Enrichment:
· The Daily Five
· Ongoing Poetry Unit
· Book Club
· Reading Log
· Diagnostic Reading Assessment
· Cursive Handwriting / The Daily Five includes read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, word work, and work on writing to develop independent comprehension skills.
Read Aloud for Theme 1: My Name is Gabriela Mistral, Show Way, & The Year of the Dog.
These include contacting the authors and doing several literature related activities.
Supplemental Poetry: The Echoing Green by William Blake, A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
Book Club with Ms. Sharon (Head of Children’s Department at the Shrewsbury Public Library): We Can’t All be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings.
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