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English Language Arts — Grade 5
Goal 2, Objective 2.08
Resources aligned to this objective
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- The Wish Giver : Cause and Effect
- Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Becky Ellzey.
- Chronology: The time of my life
- In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
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- Book clubs: Reading for fun
- In this lesson, small groups of students create, organize, and run book clubs in order to promote reading for fun. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Charting characters for a more complete understanding of the story
- Introduces the instructional strategy of Character Perspective Charting. This method is designed to reflect the actual complexity of stories that may not be reflected by the use of traditional story maps. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Developing students' critical thinking skills through whole-class dialogue
- After reading a story, students answer an open-ended question about an issue that could have multiple perspectives. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Escaping slavery: “Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt”
- Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara's problems and how she solves them. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Historical fiction: Using literature to learn about the Civil War
- Students use a book from The American Girls Collection® to learn about the characteristics of historical fiction and slavery during the Civil War. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies and English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Students analyze archival material in order to make connections between the arrival of the railroads and many of the changes that occurred subsequently in the United States and its territories. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Integrating literacy into the study of the Earth's surface
- In this lesson that incorporates trade books, read-alouds, and dialogue journals, students are introduced to the bodies of water on the Earth's surface, including ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Science)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Literature as a catalyst for social action: Breaking barriers, building bridges
- In this lesson, picture books are used to invite students to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Using the prediction strategy to set purposes for reading
- This lesson gives students opportunities to understand the prediction strategy in reading. Students use the prediction strategy and write in response journals. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
