English Grade 5 A/B

English Grade 5, Semester A, provides instruction and practice with informational and opinion texts along with foundational language skills. Concepts and/or topics regarding informational and opinion text include key ideas, supporting details, author's purpose, author's perspective, text features and structure, inferences, evidence, summary, and paraphrase. Historical, scientific, and technical texts, as well as digital texts, are included for analysis. Foundational language concepts and/or topics include capitalization, punctuation, sentence types, parts of speech, verb tense, and context clues. Instruction and practice with spelling high-frequency words and syllabication are included, as well. Writing projects include an informational essay and a research project.

English Grade 5, Semester B, explores the differences between literal language, such as determining word meaning from roots and affixes using reference materials, and figurative language, including the use of similes, metaphors, idioms, proverbs, and puns. Readings focus on plot, theme, point of view, and perspective. Reading selections include poetry, drama, folktales, and myths.  Writing projects include a personal narrative project and a multimedia project.

The materials needed for this course include standard school supplies and specified activity materials.

Coming this summer!