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English Language Arts — Grade 5
Goal 5, Objective 5.04
Resources aligned to this objective
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- In the Spirit of...(pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
Lesson plans on the web
- Alter egos and more with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
- After reading Avi's Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, students learn about the history of radio shows, examine scripts, and write their own radio show similar to the scenarios that the characters, Frankie and Mario, perform. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Author study: Improving reading comprehension using inference and comparison
- In this lesson, students review several texts by one illustrator/author, practice making inferences about that author, and then check their inferences against the author's online biography. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Can you convince me?: Developing persuasive writing
- Students are engaged in developing their skills of persuasion in a classroom game that introduces students to the basic concepts of lobbying for something that is important to them (or that they want) and making persuasive arguments. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Choosing clear and varied dialogue tags: A mini-lesson
- Students explore the use of dialogue tags such as “he said” or “she answered” in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Color Poems--Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
- Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dancing minds and shouting smiles: Teaching personification through poetry
- In this lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dear Librarian: Writing a persuasive letter
- Inspired by the actions in Beverly Cleary’s book Emily’s Runaway Imagination, in this lesson plan, students write to their school librarian, requesting that a specific text be added to the library collection. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Declare the causes: The Declaration of Independence
- Introduces students to the development of the Declaration of Indepedence as both an historical process and a writing process through the use of role play and creative writing. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Teaching the compare and contrast essay through modeling
- Students and teacher together create the first half of a draft of a comparison and contrast essay. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Who's got mail? Using literature to promote authentic letter writing
- This brief activity uses literature and shared writing to teach letter-writing format and promote authentic letter writing. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
