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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

English Language Arts — Grade 5

Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

Objective 1.01. Expand and refine vocabulary through knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, roots, derivatives, and etymologies (word origins) to assist comprehension.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Water cycle word study
Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
Food and culture
In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.3
We associate different kinds of cuisine with specific places in the world, but why do people eat what they eat? This lesson plan for the fifth-grade, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, explores world cultures and ethnic groups and the foods in their diets.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)

Resources on the web

Rooting out meaning: Morpheme match-ups in the primary grades
Students engage in morphemic analysis by using their knowledge of morphemes to define words, using a dictionary to confirm the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words, and combining morphemes to create new words. Students use Readwritethink's “Morpheme... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink