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Fifth Grade ELA Units

Unit 1
Nonfiction
Skills Learned:
Context Clues, Text Structures, Track the development of an argument, Author's Claims and Evidence, Central Ideas and Supporting details, Summarize text, Author's perspective and purpose
Assessment Dates: Sept. 24 - 25

Unit 3
Nonfiction
Skills Learned:
Context Clues, explain how relevant details support the central idea, Author's claims, evidence and reasoning, central idea and supporting details, summarize, text structure and features, author's perspective and purpose, compare and contrast primary and secondary sources
Assessment Dates: Nov. 17 - 18

Unit 5
Nonfiction
Skills Learned:
Central idea and supporting details, context clues, Figurative Language, compare texts related to the same topic, themes, text structure
Assessment Dates: Jan. 28 - 29

Unit 7
Nonfiction
Skills Learned:
Context clues, central idea and supporting details, compare and contrast primary and secondary sources related to the same topic, author's claims, evidence and reasoning, text structure and features, analyze author's perspective
Assessment Dates: Mar. 26 - 27

Unit 9
Nonfiction
Skills Learned:
Summarize, central idea and supporting details, context clues, author's claim, evidence and reasoning, text structure and features, compare and contrast how two authors present information on the same topic
Assessment Dates: May 15 - 16

Unit 2
Fiction
Skills Learned:
Context Clues, Summarizing, Describe how authors develop a character's perspective, Theme, Analyze how story elements contribute to plot
Assessment Dates: Oct. 22 - 23

Unit 4
Fiction
Skills Learned:
Context Clues, describe how an author develops a character's perspective, analyze how setting, events, conflict, and characterization contributes to the plot, figurative language, summarize, theme
Assessment Dates: Dec. 17 - 18

Unit 6
Fiction
Skills Learned:
Describe how an author develops characters' perspectives, themes, context clues, analyze how setting, events, conflict, and characterization contribute to plot,
Assessment Dates: Feb. 23 - 24

Unit 8
Ficiton
Skills Learned:
Context clues, analyze how setting, events, conflict, and characterization contribute to plot, figurative language, describe how the author develops a character's perspective, author's claim, evidence and reasoning, summarize, compare and contrast how two authors present information on the same topic or theme, central ideas and supporting details
Assessment Dates: Apr. 22 - 23

Unit 10
Fiction
Skills Learned:
Context clues, text structures, central idea and supporting details