In this lesson, students will learn the importance of water and how people in other countries do not have clean water to drink. First, students will research water conservation within their own communities. They will discover how water is purified and the steps necessary to keep our water sources clean. The students will then conduct research on the people of Sudan and how difficult obtaining clean drinking water can be. Students will conclude this lesson by building their own homemade water filters. This lesson was developed by Christina Hartzell as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, The Jolly Postman is used as an authentic example to discuss letter writing as a genre. Students explore letters to the storybook characters delivered by The Jolly Postman. They then learn how to categorize their own examples of mail. The Jolly Postman uses well-known storybook characters, from fairy tales and nursery rhymes, as recipients of letters. This children's storybook is therefore ideal for using as a review of these genres of literature and as a means of helping children begin to explore rhyme and a variety of writing styles. Several pieces of literature appropriate for use with this lesson are suggested.

Students will begin this unit of study by doing personal reflections on events in their personal life that have changed the way they live. Once students reflect on events they will be introduced to the Great Depression using Nearpod. Students will then begin to read and study about the Great Depression using a variety of texts. They will then take the knowledge they have learned to complete two activities. Students will work with a partner to create a Google Slide Digital Scrapbook that they will share out and be graded on using a rubric provided. The next activity will require students to create a digital comic strip that will summarize the main idea and viewpoints in an excerpt from “Bud, Not Buddy”.

Three Column Notes based on the Novel: The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

In this lesson, students generate their own list of superheroes from popular culture. They work in groups to read selected books and develop a list of superhero traits from these titles. They then compare the book superheroes with their pop culture counterparts using the online Venn Diagram or the Venn Diagram mobile app. Finally, students explore individual superheroes from multiple perspectives, using a list of guiding questions that encourages them to consider how superheroes might differ depending on audience, gender, or setting.

Students will read a passage; read and match vocabulary and characters with descriptors; write responses to questions; read excerpts and write the Standard English version; write textual evidence as support; and write about a character's viewpoint. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and identify character traits. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of and passage from one of Aesop's works, events, questions, vocabulary, definitions, idioms, and a writing prompt. Students will write short answers, quotations to support a main idea, and an essay. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read two passages from a book and infer the author's message about two differente settings. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of and poem by Lewis Carroll, events, questions, vocabulary, definitions, and a writing prompt. Students will write short answers, quotations to support a main idea, and an essay. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Twain's work and write to compare and contrast two settings. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of and a passage from Rober Louis Stevenson's work. Students will then write answers to questions based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This teacher's guide for Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words by Margarita Engle contains information about the book, discussion questions and prompts, activity suggestions including a readers theater, and ways to connect the themes in the book to other subjects.

This lesson accompanies the North Carolina children's book, "My NC from A to Z" which celebrates pride of place, and creates connections to North Carolina's rich African American heritage. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast two to five North Carolina African American visual artists by making art and Venn diagrams.

In this Lesson Plan, students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular young girl from West Africa has changed over a three year time span.

Three Column Notes based on the Novel: The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

This lesson is designed to engage students through reader's theater during the guided reading lesson. Students can practice fluency using an alternative format.

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.