Language Arts Curriculum

Grade 5 Unit 2: Great Readers Make Sense of Text
Essential Questions	Content	Standards CCSS	Common Core Resources	Mentor Texts	Assessment
How do great readers make sense of text? What is narrative writing?	Shared Reading: Make Predictions, Ask Questions, Clarify, Summarize and Synthesize Shared Writing: Writing Teacher's Guide Descriptive Essay, Personal Narrative Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Narrative Writing Poem, Personal Narrative Conventions/LPS: Action and Linking Verbs, Main and Helping Verbs, Punctuation	RL.5.2 RL.5.4 RL.5.5 RL.5.10 RI.5.2 RI.5.3 RI.5.4 RI.5.5 RI.5.7 RI.5.8 RI.5.9 RI.5.10 RF.5.3 RF.5.4 W.5.2 W.5.3 W.5.4 W.5.9 W.5.10 SL.5.1 SL.5.2 SL.5.5 L.5.1 L.5.2 L.5.3 L.5.4 L.5.5 L.5.6	GHGR Shared Reading Teacher's Guide GHGR Planning and Implementation Guide GHGR Reader's Theater Anthology GHGR Assessment Handbook Teacher Resource CDs GHGR Student Reader Volumes 1-3 Leveled Library (Guided Reading) GHGR Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Rubrics and Supplemental Support GHGR Writing Teacher's Guide Conference Card Writing Teacher Resource CD (rubrics) Phonics and Vocabulary Teacher's Guide Words Their Way Continuum of Literacy Learning	First Journeys; Flags; The Many Faces of Masks; Airborne!; "Making Digby Jump" "The Blackberry Patch"	F&P Benchmark (beginning, middle and end of year) Reading Writing Portfolio (Fall and Spring Writing Sample) Assessment Handbook: Running Record (3 times per year between benchmarks) Summary Rubric Reading Log Story Frame Text Frame Independent Reading Behavior Checklist (AIS/RTI) Performance-Based Assessment Checklist of Good Habits (AIS/RTI)