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English Language Development — Grade 5

Goal 3. Reading — Novice Low, Objective NL 3.06

Goal 3. Reading

The learner will comprehend written English in personal, social, and academic contexts from print and non-print materials.

Level: Novice Low

Students will use various forms of non-verbal communication to express ideas and demonstrate basic comprehension. They may point, touch, match, draw, act out, demonstrate an action, or play games to show their understanding. Learning objectives focus on greetings, classroom objects, presenting own ideas through non-verbal communication, developing book and print awareness, demonstrating a sense of story and sequence, copying and appropriately spacing letters, printing first and last name, drawing pictures and using letters to illustrate experiences, copying to compose simple sentences, and following one-step directions.

Objective NL 3.06

Recognize that books and other sources provide information through pictures and simple vocabulary.

Resources aligned to this objective

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More Than Just a Rainy Day--the Water Cycle
Students will identify water sources in the school environment in order to understand the origins of our water and to gain perspective about the students' place in the water cycle. Students will learn about the water cycle using a variety of resources and discover connections between the water cycle and the water that they use every day.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Science)
By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
Solving problems using simple machines
This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.