English Language Arts Grade 5 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (5.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 5.R.4:

Read grade-level text* with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RL & RI)

• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
  Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then you and they can be confident that they understand it.
• Name Tag Glyphs
  In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
  This lesson is an Apple technology integrated lesson designed to help students practice reading for accuracy, fluency and expression. Students will practice an perform a readers theater or choral reading of their choice and record it with sound effects for a finished product.
• e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
  Students in Grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.

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