GRADE 5 ELA INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS
The following grade-level resource page is designed to follow the GCR2 ELA Resource Graphic:
- Priority & Supporting Standards - Tells us what essential knowledge, skills and strategies must be acquired at each grade- PS helps teachers prioritize.
- Literacy Blueprint - Describes a Balanced Literacy Model for designing your block of ELA instruction and explains the district philosophy.
- ELA Modules - Clusters the standards in a way that makes sense across the year.
- Mentor Texts and Close Reading Passages - Supports all teachers in designing ELA lessons using identified high quality texts aligned to MLS and our students needs.
- Module Lesson Maps - Provides teachers with a sequenced description of lessons aligned to our modules, using our Mentor Texts, and suggesting standards and ideas for instruction.
- Assessments - Provides us with information as to whether our students are acquiring the knowledge skills and strategies we are teaching and informs our instructional decisions.
- Standards-Based Education - Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.
PRIORITY & SUPPORT STANDARDS
The following resources have been developed and/or gathered to support Fifth Grade teachers as they implement the Missouri Learning Standards in 2015-2016. Just click on the links below to access these documents.
Fifth Grade “I Can” Statements were designed for teachers to post daily classroom objectives one at a time and standards that are spread out over a number of pages. Standards flow one to the next. Some teachers have chosen to make them into posters and highlight the day’s learning target with a clothespin or large arrow cut-out. Another idea to help with the organization of all of these posters is to put them on a binder ring so that they can easily be flipped through and displayed each day.
Reading
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Writing
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Language
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Speaking/Listening
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LITERACY BLUEPRINT
The following document was designed for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators to provide a vision and structure for literacy instruction.
- Guiding Principles
- Creating a Supportive Literacy Environment
- Common Core and The Blueprint
- Elements of a Balanced Literacy Program
- Elements Described in Detail
- Assessments- District and Formative Assessment Practices
- Supporting Specific Groups of Learners: EL/ELL/SPED/Title 1 & SEEK
- Implementation Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Grade Level Word Study Chart
ELA MODULES
Each grade level has a proposed curriculum map of the ELA standards divided into 4 Modules (or chunks) of instruction spanning the school year. These modules are detailed in the chart below. You might consider shortening each module into 4-5 weeks and cycling through 2 rounds, the first as an introduction and the second taking it deeper. This will ensure that all standards are covered prior to state testing.
MENTOR TEXTS AND CLOSE READING PASSAGES
Mentor Texts and Toolkit for 2015-2016
The “Toolkit” that follows is a collection of resources filtered from various web sites. Word documents were maintained whenever possible. While these do not directly relate to our Mentor Texts and Close Reading passages they are strong examples for you to use or modify with your grade level text selections in order to support CCSS and the inherent rigor.
- Graphic Organizers
- Tools
- Opinion Writing Rubrics
- Narrative Writing Rubrics
- Informational Writing Rubrics
- Misc. Rubrics
MODULE LESSON MAPS
The following modules were created as sample curriculum maps at each grade level. The modules include all of the ELA Common Core Standards including: reading, writing, listening/speaking and language. Our goal was to show how the Priority and Supporting Standards could be addressed throughout the year by grouping them in a logical fashion. This Yearlong Overview and the 4 Modules identify where the standards are introduced, however, classroom teachers will make the decision as to when students will be assessed. Students continue to have multiple opportunities to show they have met the standards throughout the year in various venues including whole group, small group, or individually. Although there are “focus” standards identified for each module, once introduced, they are continually used and perfected by students in subsequent modules. That is, the modules are designed to build upon previous ones, so that, by the end of the year, the standards have been addressed deeply, and the priority standards assessed in appropriate levels of text. (Please see the ELA Diagram illustrating this concept using nested circles.) You’ll notice that the module designers identified some standards that would be addressed in all modules and placed them in the section titled “Yearlong Skill Development.”
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and is named for a significant Common Core ELA concept. These concepts or “big ideas” may represent major shifts in instruction and therefore deserve focus and intentional planning. (Please see the explanation of these big ideas beneath the Module title.) It is important to note that, although there is an overriding focus on these important ELA concepts, each module could include anywhere from 1-3 units of study. Classroom teachers decide where they would teach their grade level Science and Social Studies Units. There is also plenty of freedom to select from literary units such as a genre study, an author study or a habit of mind such as “overcoming challenges and perseverance”. The choices are endless and allow for any number of possible maps to be developed within a framework that is meant to assist in managing these new standards.
We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation. We sincerely hope that this effort is helpful to you as we embark on this exciting journey together.
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and is named for a significant Common Core ELA concept. These concepts or “big ideas” may represent major shifts in instruction and therefore deserve focus and intentional planning. (Please see the explanation of these big ideas beneath the Module title.) It is important to note that, although there is an overriding focus on these important ELA concepts, each module could include anywhere from 1-3 units of study. Classroom teachers decide where they would teach their grade level Science and Social Studies Units. There is also plenty of freedom to select from literary units such as a genre study, an author study or a habit of mind such as “overcoming challenges and perseverance”. The choices are endless and allow for any number of possible maps to be developed within a framework that is meant to assist in managing these new standards.
We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation. We sincerely hope that this effort is helpful to you as we embark on this exciting journey together.
MODULES
Module 1: Close Reading and Writing to learn/ Launching Readers and Writers Workshop
Module 2: Developing critical readers, writers, and thinkers of narrative text
Module 3: Learning Through Research
Module 4: Forming Positions
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UNITS OF STUDY
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STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION
Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.
Reading Literature (RL)
5.RL.8
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Student Friendly Language (I Can)
5.RL.8 "I Can Statement"
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Reading Informational Text (RI)
Reading Informational Text Standard
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Student Friendly Language (I Can)
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Power Standard (PS)
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Writing (W)
Writing Standard
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Student Friendly Language (I Can)
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Speaking & Listening (SL)
Speaking & Listening Standard
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Student Friendly Language (I Can)
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Language (L)
Language Standard
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Student Friendly Language (I Can)
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