ELA Curriculum
Quarter 2
Essential Question: What influences our ability to adapt?
Novel: Peak by Roland Smith
Word Study: During Word Study, we will be using word inquiry to increase our vocabulary and spelling skills. We will be learning about Greek and Latin roots along with word parts.
Sentence Study: We will be using mentor texts from our quarterly novels to identify parts of speech, types of sentences, and figurative language.
Writing: Prose Constructed Response (PCR): research simulation;
informational text writing "What you Need to Know Before Climbing Mt. Everest"
- L 5.2 – I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Reading Literature Standards:
- RL 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RL 5.2 I can determine a theme of a text, including how characters respond to challenges
- RL 5.3 I can use specific details to compare and contrast two or more characters, setting, or events in a story.
- RL 5.9 I can compare and contrast stories in the same genre according to similar themes and topics.
Reading Information Standards:
- RI 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RI 5.2 I can determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details.
- RI 5.4 I can determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject are and by using context clues.
- RI 5.5 I can compare and contrast the overall text structure of a text.
- RI 5.9 I can integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write about the subject.