Language Arts - Reading and Grammar
Reading and Grammar will be instructed through Reader's Workshop.
Reading Passage Practice
1. http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/tests/grade5.html
Reading Passage Practice
1. http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/tests/grade5.html
AKS and Website Resources for Additional Practice
1st Nine Weeks August 9 - October 8
Reading Genre: Narrative
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_5.htm
Interactive Site: Narrative Elements
2. http://www.rocketreader.com/cgi-bin/portal/fun_tests/perception?gclid=CM2_soSXq5sCFQJ2xgodeWQQyA
Test your Reading Speed, Comprehension, and Vocabulary Skills
4 respond to comments and questions appropriately and with appropriate information
8 listen to and view various forms of text and media to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas
1. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0609/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Asteroids Rock -about future projections of what will happen if an asteroid hits Earth
2. http://www.weeklyreader.com/sites/default/files/WR3-Web-Search.pdf
Orangutan Website Practice with Review Questions
3. httpp://www.weeklyreader.com/sites/default/files/WRSr-Web-Search.pdf
Panda Website Practice with Review Questions
10 shape information to achieve a particular purpose and to appeal to the interests and background knowlege of audience members
17 present speeches to inform, demonstrate, and entertain using increasingly complex sentence structures, multimedia, notes and other memory
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/activity.shtml
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/summarising/revise1.shtml
Summarizing Information
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/summarising/activity.shtml
Summarizing Practice
Reading:
21 theme
32 relate literature to setting
38 analyze elements of setting, characterization, and conflict in plot
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill12/trees.htm
Test Tutor: Narrative Elements
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/dolphins.html
Test Tutor: Narrative Elements
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill3/off_running.htm
Test Tutor: Characterization
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill3/henshaw.htm
Test Tutor: Characterization
5. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotp.cfm
Practice: Plot, Setting, Theme
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/revise1.shtml
Practice and Test: Text Types
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/activity.shtml
Charaterization
39 analyze author's use of dialogue and description
42 first person and third person points of view
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise5.shtml
Lesson/Review
2. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/maintainpointp2.cfm
Quiz: Maintaining Point of View
43 story development, author's purpose, and point of view
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_22.htm
Interactive Website: Author's Purpose and Perspective
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/revise7.shtml
Word Study:
Prefixes and suffix practice
1.http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_4.htm
2.http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill13/hot_cold.htm
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_1.htm
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill13/yang.htm
5. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling5.htm
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (super-, phobia, - chron)
1. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm
Game: Greek and Latin Root Words
2. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling5.htm
Fling the Teacher Prefixes and Suffixes
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_5.htm
Interactive Site: Narrative Elements
2. http://www.rocketreader.com/cgi-bin/portal/fun_tests/perception?gclid=CM2_soSXq5sCFQJ2xgodeWQQyA
Test your Reading Speed, Comprehension, and Vocabulary Skills
4 respond to comments and questions appropriately and with appropriate information
8 listen to and view various forms of text and media to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas
1. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0609/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Asteroids Rock -about future projections of what will happen if an asteroid hits Earth
2. http://www.weeklyreader.com/sites/default/files/WR3-Web-Search.pdf
Orangutan Website Practice with Review Questions
3. httpp://www.weeklyreader.com/sites/default/files/WRSr-Web-Search.pdf
Panda Website Practice with Review Questions
10 shape information to achieve a particular purpose and to appeal to the interests and background knowlege of audience members
17 present speeches to inform, demonstrate, and entertain using increasingly complex sentence structures, multimedia, notes and other memory
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/activity.shtml
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/summarising/revise1.shtml
Summarizing Information
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/summarising/activity.shtml
Summarizing Practice
Reading:
21 theme
32 relate literature to setting
38 analyze elements of setting, characterization, and conflict in plot
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill12/trees.htm
Test Tutor: Narrative Elements
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/dolphins.html
Test Tutor: Narrative Elements
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill3/off_running.htm
Test Tutor: Characterization
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill3/henshaw.htm
Test Tutor: Characterization
5. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotp.cfm
Practice: Plot, Setting, Theme
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/revise1.shtml
Practice and Test: Text Types
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/activity.shtml
Charaterization
39 analyze author's use of dialogue and description
42 first person and third person points of view
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise5.shtml
Lesson/Review
2. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/maintainpointp2.cfm
Quiz: Maintaining Point of View
43 story development, author's purpose, and point of view
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_22.htm
Interactive Website: Author's Purpose and Perspective
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/text_types/revise7.shtml
Word Study:
Prefixes and suffix practice
1.http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_4.htm
2.http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill13/hot_cold.htm
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_1.htm
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill13/yang.htm
5. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling5.htm
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (super-, phobia, - chron)
1. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm
Game: Greek and Latin Root Words
2. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling5.htm
Fling the Teacher Prefixes and Suffixes
2nd Nine Weeks October 12 - December 17
Reading
45 cause and effect relationships
1. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0601/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Odd Couples - About Animals that are co-dependent on other Species
2. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0411/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Return to Titanic - about the history of the Titanic
47 compare/contrast within/between texts and make perceptive and well-developed connections
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill5/running.html
Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill5/henshaw.html
Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise2.shtml
Explicit Information
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise4.shtml
Implicit Information
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/atmosphere_setting/activity.shtml
Explicit and Implicit Information Activity
Identify imagery, figurative language (for example, personification, metaphor, simile, and hyperbole), refrain, rhythm, and flow when responding to literature
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/writing_detective/WD_E_5_1.HTM
Figurative Language - Writing Detective Quiz
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/folktales.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/woodsong.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/dolphins.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
5. http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor1.htm
Quiz: Metaphors
6. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes26/gumbie7/PoetryPieces.html
Quiz: Alliteration or Simile?
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise7.shtml
Responding to Literature
8. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html
Which is it? Fling the Teacher
Word Study
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (mega-, -cracy, bio)
54 puns, jokes, palindromes
Puns - http://www.newnfresh.com/fun/30_funny_puns_for_kids.html
Jokes - http://www.jokesbykids.com/science/space/
Palindromes - http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/palindromes.htm
55 identify idioms and figurative phrases
56 distinguish between metaphors and simile
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor.htm
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/metaphor-examples-for-kids.html
45 cause and effect relationships
1. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0601/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Odd Couples - About Animals that are co-dependent on other Species
2. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0411/articles/mainarticle.html
Article: Return to Titanic - about the history of the Titanic
47 compare/contrast within/between texts and make perceptive and well-developed connections
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill5/running.html
Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill5/henshaw.html
Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise2.shtml
Explicit Information
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise4.shtml
Implicit Information
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/atmosphere_setting/activity.shtml
Explicit and Implicit Information Activity
Identify imagery, figurative language (for example, personification, metaphor, simile, and hyperbole), refrain, rhythm, and flow when responding to literature
1. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/writing_detective/WD_E_5_1.HTM
Figurative Language - Writing Detective Quiz
2. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/folktales.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
3. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/woodsong.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
4. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill9/dolphins.html
Test Tutor: Figurative Language
5. http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor1.htm
Quiz: Metaphors
6. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes26/gumbie7/PoetryPieces.html
Quiz: Alliteration or Simile?
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/character/revise7.shtml
Responding to Literature
8. http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html
Which is it? Fling the Teacher
Word Study
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (mega-, -cracy, bio)
54 puns, jokes, palindromes
Puns - http://www.newnfresh.com/fun/30_funny_puns_for_kids.html
Jokes - http://www.jokesbykids.com/science/space/
Palindromes - http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/palindromes.htm
55 identify idioms and figurative phrases
56 distinguish between metaphors and simile
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dragonsville/metaphor.htm
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/metaphor-examples-for-kids.html
3rd Nine Weeks January 4 - March 11
Reading
37 identify organizational patterns (classifcation)
1. Lesson/Information- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/paragraphs/revise1.shtml
2. Paragraphs Activity- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/paragraphs/activity.shtml
3. Structure - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/structure/activity.shtml
46 maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, captions, and illustrations
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill14/dark_sea.htm
Test Tutor: Reference Resources
Word Study:
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (mono, -ate, -ation, polis)
37 identify organizational patterns (classifcation)
1. Lesson/Information- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/paragraphs/revise1.shtml
2. Paragraphs Activity- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/paragraphs/activity.shtml
3. Structure - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/reading/structure/activity.shtml
46 maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, captions, and illustrations
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill14/dark_sea.htm
Test Tutor: Reference Resources
Word Study:
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (mono, -ate, -ation, polis)
4th Nine Weeks March 15 - May 25
Reading
24 analyze the structural elements to dramatic literature (e.g., scenes, acts, cast of characters, stage directions)
25 similarities/differences between narrative and film/play
Word Study:
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (hemi-, semi-, -ify, struct)
24 analyze the structural elements to dramatic literature (e.g., scenes, acts, cast of characters, stage directions)
25 similarities/differences between narrative and film/play
Word Study:
51 use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to read new words and determine their meanings (hemi-, semi-, -ify, struct)