This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade ELA.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade English Language Arts.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 5th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
This lesson encourages students to use common Greek and Latin affixes and roots to deconstruct and construct words. If they learn, for example, that micro means small and scope means see, they can deduce that a microscope is a device that enables an individual to see small objects. The students use the Morpheme Match-Ups handout and the Word Central website to engage in morphemic analysis of familiar and unfamiliar words. This lesson allows teachers to easily substitute their own affixes and roots for each activity.
In this multi-session lesson, word webs are used to expose students to synonyms for common words, to help students choose synonyms that are appropriate for a given context, and to encourage students to use more descriptive words in their speech and writing. Student pairs then use words from the web in a skit they present to the class.
Students are introduced to content area vocabulary associated with the American Revolution.
In this lesson, students will explore proverbs and adages. After reading the selection Where’s Brownie? In Wonders Unit 4, students will be shown a video explaining proverbs and adages further. (Students will complete pages 133 and 137 in their Reading and Writing Companion during a shared reading and reread.) Students will then play Adage Charades and create a Jamboard where groups (PIG) research and choose several adages/proverbs to create posters of. Groups will then present to the class sharing what they learned.
In this lesson, students are challenged to come up with new words based on their relationship to vocabulary words they are currently studying.