Download Name Luanne Strusa Map for: ELA (Grade 5)

Name Luanne Strusa
SEPTEMBER
Essential Questions
Map for: ELA (Grade 5)
Content
What is the difference between a
sentence and a fragment?
What is the simple subject and
simple predicate?
How do you use conjunctions
properly?
How do you correct a run-on
sentence?
Grammar- sentences
How do I organize a narrative
paragraph?
How do I write a personal
narrative?
How do I get the reader interested
in my narrative?
What strategies can I use to help
me understand the text better?
How do author’s use strategies to
give clues to the reader?
How can I think deeper about the
text instead of only understanding
what the author states?
What is informational text?
How can I find the main idea of a
reading passage?
What are supporting details?
How do I summarize informational
text?
How does learning roots of words
help me understand meanings of
unknown words?
Which words have more than one
meaning?
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
Distinguish between sentences and fragments.
Identify complete subject and predicate.
Identify the simple subject and simple predicate.
Choose the appropriate conjunction for a sentence.
Write sentences that contain conjunctions.
Identify, correct, and punctuate run-on sentences.
Proofread for run-on sentences.
English book – unit 1
Writing – narrative
State a main idea and support it with details and
examples.
Use paragraphing to organize ideas and information.
Establish consistent point of view.
Create a lead that attracts the reader’s attention.
Use strategies such as webbing or mapping to plan
and organize writing.
English book – unit 8
Traits books
Narrative – “Moment in
Time”
Various worksheets
Reading – Read Aloud Bridge to
Terabithia
Strategy Work: Making Connections (tt,t-s,t-w), Making Inferences, Making
Predictions, Determining Importance,
Visualizing
Identify literary elements and literary devices
Interpret the impact of literary devices such as
simile.
Respond to literature, connecting the response to
personal experience.
Describe the characters and how they change.
Summarize the plot.
Understand how to identify strategies and use them
to deepen meaning of text
Bridge to Terabithia
The Stranger (for
inferencing)
Strategy practice
worksheets
Written response
questions to read-aloud
Strategy Work - Key Details in
Informational Text
Identify main idea and key details
Understand Scientific/Technical/Historical Texts
Use details to support inferences in text
New York Ready Unit 1
Unit 1 Interim
Assessment
Homework
Class discussions
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Vocab Book – Unit 1
Homework
Vocabulary Quiz
New York Ready –
Language Handbook:
Conventions of Standard
English Lessons 12-14
Classwork
Chapter test
Homework
OCTOBER
Essential Questions
Content
What words in sentences need to
be capitalized?
How do we use commas and
quotation marks?
How do we differentiate between
and book and a poem etc… in
writing.
Grammar – mechanics
How do you write a compare and
contrast essay using feature to
feature organization?
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
Use correct beginning and end punctuation.
Use commas to separate words in a series.
Use commas correctly with introductory words and
with nouns in direct address.
Identify and correctly punctuate interjections.
Punctuate and capitalize direct quotations including
divided quotes.
Write and punctuate abbreviations.
Write and punctuate titles correctly – underline vs.
quotation marks.
English book – unit 5
Writing – Compare/Contrast
Use proper organizing structures; Venn Diagram/TChart
Compare and contrast ideas and information from
two or more different sources.
Use evidence from text to evaluate ideas, info,
themes, or experiences.
Adopt an organizational format appropriate for
critical analysis and evaluation such as compare and
contrast.
Writer’s Companion Book
Traits Book
Graphic Organizers
Compare/Contrast
Essay of BTT book vs.
movie
Reading – finish Bridge to Terabithia
Module 1 – Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Use text features to understand informational text.
Identify the author’s viewpoint.
Use descriptions as context clues.
Identify unknown words
Restate text in different words to demonstrate
understanding
UDHR – Module 1
resources
Homework
Class discussions/work
How can comparing and contrasting
characters, settings, and events
help me to better understand the
text?
What is theme?
Strategy Work – Key Ideas and Details in
Informational Text, Literature
Compare/Contrast characters, settings, and events
Find theme of a story, drama, or poem
Summarize literary texts
New York Ready Book –
Units 1 (con’t) & 2
Interim Assessment
Homework
Class discussions
How does learning roots of words
help me understand meanings of
unknown words?
Which words have more than one
meaning?
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Incorporate new vocabulary words into writing
Vocab Book – Units 2 & 3
Homework
Vocab Quiz
What is informational text?
How can I break text into chunks
to help me understand the meaning?
How can I put text into my own
words?
New York Ready –
Language Handbook:
Conventions of Standard
English Lessons 8-11
Classwork
Chapter test
Homework
NOVEMBER
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
What is a noun?
When do we capitalize nouns?
What is the difference between
plural nouns and possessives?
Grammar- nouns
Identify nouns in a sentence.
Identify common and proper nouns, capitalize proper
nouns, and proofread for errors.
Write the plural form of nouns correctly.
Write sentences using singular and plural possessive
nouns correctly.
Use a possessive noun to combine two choppy
sentences into one.
English book- unit 2
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Chapter test
Classwork
Homework
How can I state my point of view in
a writing piece?
How do I support my statements
with facts and details?
Writing – opinion piece
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a
point of view with reasons and information.
Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion,
and create an organizational structure in which ideas
are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported
by facts and details.
Provide a conclusion
Various examples of
opinion pieces
English Book – Unit 12
Organization of essay
Strong enough
supporting details?
Finished essay
How can I respond to literature?
How do I utilize reading strategies
to help me understand literature?
How can I connect to what I’m
reading?
Reading – Esperanza Rising
Track thinking while reading
Record use of strategies while reading (inferring,
predicting, etc.)
Answer text-based and thought-based questions
using complete sentences and supporting details
Esperanza Rising
Guided Reading Journals
Strategy Tracking
Written Responses
Group discussions
How does understanding structure
of a text help me?
What are different types of text
structures?
Strategy Work – Craft and Structure in
Informational Text
Comparing text structures: problem/solution, cause
/effect, compare/contrast
How can learning new words make
me a better reader?
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
New York Ready – Unit 3
Vocab Book Units 4 & 5
Homework
Interim Assessment
Class discussions
Homework
Vocab Quiz
Essential Questions
What is an adjective?
What is an article and a
demonstrative?
How do you compare using
adjectives?
How do you compare using good and
bad?
What is a proper adjective?
DECEMBER
How do you write with voice?
How do you write poetry?
What is figurative language?
How do fictional stories relate to
real-life?
How do characters change
throughout the course of a story?
How do you read poetry?
What is point of view?
How can learning new words make
me a better writer?
Content
Grammar- adjectives
Writing – writing different styles of
poetry
Reading – finish Esperanza Rising
Poetry
Skills
Text/Resources
Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe.
Use articles and demonstrative adjectives correctly.
Add –er or –est to adjectives or more and most when
comparing using adjectives.
Proofread for errors.
Use the special forms of good and bad for making
comparisons.
Identify and form proper adjectives.
English book – unit 4
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Chapter test
Classwork
Homework
Menu
Demonstrate creativity with words to convey
thoughts in poetry
Use variety of words to express thoughts
Paint picture in readers mind when writing poetry
Use different literary techniques to make writing
interesting; simile, metaphor, repetition,
onomatopoeia, etc
Figurative language
Where the Sidewalk
Ends
Falling Up
Other various books of
poems
Poem packets – info
about rules and how to
write different styles of
poems
Students’ written
original poems
Final Poetry Book with
7 different styles of
poems
Make connections between fictional story and realworld issues (Esperanza’s struggles vs. unfair
treatment of groups of people)
Demonstrate how the story agrees/disagrees with
the UDHR
Demonstrate understanding of character
development and growth throughout a story
Use text features to understand figurative language
Analyze poems to describe underlying meanings
Strategy Work – Craft and Structure in
Literature
Understanding of Literary Structure
Point of view
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Using new vocabulary accurately in writing
Esperanza Rising
Guided Reading Journals
UDHR
Various poems
New York Ready – Unit 4
Vocab Book – Units 5 & 6
Assessment
Written responses
Homework
Class/Small group
discussions
Analysis of poetry
Homework
Interim Unit
Assessment
Classroom Discussion
Homework
Vocab Quiz
JANUARY
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
What is a verb?
What is the difference between a
helping verb and a linking verb?
What endings are added to verbs to
change the tense?
How do you make the subject agree
with the verb?
Grammar- verbs
Identify action verbs, linking verbs and the word in
the predicate that describes the subject.
Label the main verb and the helping verb.
Write singular and plural present, past, and future
tense verbs correctly.
Proofread for verb tense errors and subject-verb
agreement
Combine two short sentences with the same subject
to create a sentence with a compound predicate.
Write present tense verbs that agree in number with
their subjects.
Identify the correct forms of be and have.
English book – unit 3
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Classwork
Homework
Chapter test
How do you write a research paper?
What is a biography?
How is a biography structured?
What is chronological order?
Writing – research paper/biography
Take notes to record and organize relevant data,
facts, and ideas,
Use at least three sources of information with
appropriate citations to develop reports.
Write labels or captions for graphics used to convey
information.
English book – unit 11
Research paper on a
historical figure
Why is the setting important to a
book?
How do characters affect other
characters’ actions in a book?
How might your own background
affect your feelings about a story?
Reading – realistic fiction
Describe the setting and recognize the importance
to the story.
Respond to literature, connecting the response to
personal experience.
Describe the characters and how they change.
Summarize the plot.
Identify literary elements and literary devices
Read, view and interpret text from a variety of
genres.
Share reading experiences to build a relationship
with peers and adults.
Novels vary depending on
students’ reading level
Guided Reading
Journals
Compare/contrast stories in the same genre
Analyze visual elements in literary texts
New York Ready – Unit 6
Homework
Interim Assessments
Classroom discussions
Vocab book Units 7 & 8
Homework
Vocab quiz
What parts of a story help me
understand it better?
How do pictures help me interpret
character’s feelings?
How can I incorporate new
vocabulary words into everyday
conversation?
Strategy Work – Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas in Literature
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Write dialogue using vocabulary words
FEBRUARY
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
English book – unit 3
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Assessment
What are irregular verbs?
How do you write a verb phrase
with have?
How do you choose the correct
verb? – ex: teach vs learn
Grammar- verbs
Write the past tense and past participle for regular
and irregular verbs.
Proofread for errors.
Write verb phrases using have – ex: could have
Proofread for errors.
Use the words teach, learn, let, leave, sit, set, can,
may correctly in a sentence.
Classwork
Homework
Chapter test
How do you write a fiction story
using characters and dialogue?
Writing – creative
Use resources and personal experience to plan
imaginative text.
Use quotation marks correctly in text to
demonstrate dialogue between characters.
What is the climax of a story and
why is it important?
What lessons are being taught in
realistic fiction novels?
How can a story map help me
predict the ending of a book?
Reading – realistic fiction continued
Create story map of novel to discover structure and
craft
Discuss underlying messages in novel to learn the
moral/theme/lesson
Make predictions based on previous events in the
story
Discuss possible outcomes with peers and engage in a
critical thinking discussion
Novels vary depending on
students’ reading levels
Accuracy of completed
story maps
Written responses
Tracks
Guided reading journals
What have I learned so far about
literature?
What do I know about informational
text?
What strategies have I learned to
help me better understand text?
Strategy Work - catch up on any missed
lessons, review previous material to
reinforce content
Finding main idea and supporting details
Summarizing informational text
Making inferences and using details to support
inferences
Finding theme of stories or poems
Understanding different text structures
Understand the difference between fact and opinion
New York Ready Books
STARS Strategy Books
Reading comprehension
passages and questions
TFK non-fiction articles
Classroom/Homework
assignments
What new vocabulary words have I
truly learned?
Can I use strong vocabulary
correctly in context?
Vocabulary – Review of all words so far
Spelling
Demonstrate clear understanding of meanings of
words
Identify words that have more than one meaning and
be able to use the word in both ways
Vocabulary book
Flashcards
Vocab journal
Homework
Vocab quiz
Written assignments
Creative Writing Essay
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
Grammar – pronouns
Identify subject pronouns.
Replace nouns with subject pronouns.
Distinguish between subject and object pronouns and
use them to complete a sentence.
Use I and me and we and us correctly.
Choose a possessive pronoun to complete a sentence.
Identify possessive pronouns.
Combine pronouns and verbs to form contractions.
English book - Unit 6
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Homework
Classwork
Chapter test
How do you write a persuasive
essay?
How do I show how one side of a
debate is more appealing than the
other?
Writing - persuasive
Analyze the impact of an event or issue from
personal, peer group, and school community
perspective.
Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion,
and create an organizational structure in which ideas
are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported
with reasons
Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and
clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
Provide a concluding statement or section related to
the opinion presented.
English book – Unit 13
Writer’s Companion
Various examples of
persuasive text
Persuasive Essay
How do I recognize informational
text?
What are the features of
informational text?
How do I understand the most
important parts of informational
text?
Reading – informational text
Identify parts of informational text; headings,
subheadings, pictures with captions, vocabulary
words, etc.
Be able to pull out the most important information
and write a summary in your own words.
Answer questions about text by going back and
finding information.
Infer information from text and use it to draw
conclusions
Time for Kids articles
Readworks.org passages
Various non-fiction texts
Written responses
Class discussions
MARCH
What is the difference between
subject and object pronouns?
When do you use I and me and we
and us in a sentence?
How do you make a pronoun
possessive?
What is a contraction with a
pronoun?
How can I use information from
more than one source to answer a
question?
How can learning new words make
me a better reader?
Strategy Work – Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas in Informational
Text
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Finding information from multiple sources
Understanding supporting evidence
New York Ready – Unit 5
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Write dialogue using vocabulary words
Vocab books Units 9 & 10
Homework
Interim Assessments
Classroom discussions
Homework
Vocab quiz
APRIL
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
What is an adverb?
How do you compare with adverbs?
How do you distinguish between an
adverb or adjective?
What is a preposition and
prepositional phrase?
How do you use object pronouns in
prepositional phrases?
How do you distinguish between
adverbs and prepositions?
Grammar – adverbs and prepositions
Identify adverbs and verbs they describe.
Identify adverbs that tell how, when, and where.
Elaborate sentences using adverbs.
Use the correct form of adverbs to compare two or
more actions.
Use the adjective good and adverb well correctly.
Use negatives correctly.
Proofread for double negatives.
Identify prepositions and objects of prepositions.
Identify prepositional phrases.
Identify and proofread object pronouns in
prepositional phrases.
Distinguish between adverbs and prepositions.
English book – unit 7
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Homework
Classwork
Test
Why is setting so important to a
story?
Why are characters actions so
important to a plot?
Reading
Describe the setting and recognize the importance
to the story.
Respond to literature, connecting the response to
personal experience.
Describe the characters and how they change.
Summarize the plot.
Identify literary elements and literary devices
Read, view and interpret text from a variety of
genres.
Share reading experiences to build a relationship
with peers and adults.
Number the Stars
Reading comprehension
packet
Written responses
How can I use the strategies
learned to help me answer multiple
choice and short answer questions?
Strategy Work – practice and review
Read passages and answer multiple choice questions
accurately using the strategies learned in class
Write well written short responses to questions
using details from text
Previous NYS tests
Readworks.org passages
STARS workbook
Homework
Classwork
How can learning new words help me
understand the text better?
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Write dialogue using vocabulary words
Vocab book Units 11 & 12
Homework
Vocab quiz
MAY
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Text/Resources
Assessment
Can I apply what I’ve learned this
year to my writing?
Can I correct a piece of writing
when proofreading it so that is
grammatically correct?
Grammar – review
Apply skills learned throughout the year to write
compositions in a grammatically correct way.
Demonstrate knowledge of proper agreement
between verbs/subjects/plurals/singulars, etc.
English book
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Review quizzes
What can I create to make life
easier for everyday people?
Writing – invention
Creatively come up with an invention to assist in
everyday life and describe why it is useful
Be able to persuade a reader to buy your product
Organize an essay describing your invention so that
it is clear
Provide answers to possible questions people may
have about your product
Graphic Organizers
Advertisements
Invention essay
Why is setting so important to a
story?
Why are characters actions so
important to a plot?
Reading
Demonstrate ability to infer information about how
characters are feeling
Make predictions about the story based on events
Use the text to answer questions accurately
Explain why events/characters behave or occur
based on knowledge of the story
Number the Stars
continued
Reading comprehension
packet
Class discussions
Written responses
Strategy Work – practice and review
Read passages and answer multiple choice questions
accurately using the strategies learned in class
Write well written short responses to questions
using details from text
Previous NYS tests
Readworks.org passages
STARS workbook
Homework
Classwork
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Spelling
Determine or clarify meaning of unknown and
multiple meaning words and phrases by using context
clues, analyzing meaningful word part
Write dialogue using vocabulary words
Vocab book Units 13 & 14
Homework
Vocab quiz
Essential Questions
JUNE
Can I apply what I’ve learned this
year to my writing?
Can I correct a piece of writing
when proofreading it so that is
grammatically correct?
Content
Grammar – Review
Reading
Strategy Work – practice and review
Vocab and Spelling - Review
Skills
Text/Resources
Apply skills learned throughout the year to write
compositions in a grammatically correct way.
Demonstrate knowledge of proper agreement
between verbs/subjects/plurals/singulars, etc.
English Book
Strategies for Writers
Grammar Practice book
Workbook Plus
Spectrum Language Arts
Read passages and answer multiple choice questions
accurately using the strategies learned in class
Write well written short responses to questions
using details from text
Previous NYS tests
Readworks.org passages
STARS workbook
Assessment
Exams
Exams
Exams