This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 5th grade ELA content.

In this lesson, students read about Paul Revere's famous ride to warn Americans about the advancement of the British soldiers. Students utilize reading skills to respond to questions about the text and demonstrate understanding.

Tradition in the Lakota Sioux involves giving a name to a child based on his actions, so a young child who moves slowly in all he does earns the name ‘Slow’ from his family. After demonstrating bravery and determination during battle he then earns a new name, Sitting Bull, and this same man later becomes the respected chief of the Lakota Sioux. In this CCSS lesson students will explore Sitting Bull's life through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students learn of Davy Crocket who becomes an American Hero by saving the Earth. Students utilize reading skills to respond to questions about the text and demonstrate understanding.

Students will learn the characteristics of tall tales, reflect on a historical moment, and discover why David Crockett and others like him became important figures in American frontier history.

As a way to support teachers with English Language Arts (ELA) instruction during the pandemic, the NCDPI ELA team created choice boards featuring standards-aligned ELA activities.The intended purpose of these choice boards is to provide a way for students to continue standards-based learning while schools are closed. Each activity can be adapted and modified to be completed with or without the use of digital tools. Many activities can also be repeated with different texts. These standards-based activities are meant to be a low-stress approach to reinforcing and enriching the skills learned during the 2019-2020 school year. The choice boards are to be used flexibly by teachers, parents, and students in order to meet the unique needs of each learner.Exploration activities are provided for a more self-directed or guided approach to independent learning for students. These activities and sites should be used as a way to explore concepts, topics, skills, and social and emotional competencies that interest the learner. 

Students will identify why and how Feynman started to look at the world through the eyes of a scientist. Students will both learn how memoirs can be as deeply revealing as fiction and how to unpack the meaning of a first person narrative.

This lesson is an introduction to the term of poverty. The students will begin with creating a Think Tank on poverty. After the creation of their Think Tank, we will share the vocabulary that was developed. Using the most often shared vocabulary, we will use these words to build a meaning and understanding of poverty. This lesson is based on poverty and music with a direct connection to math, science, technology, engineering, arts, and multiple media skills. The teacher will present a self-assessment for the students to monitor their progress at the conclusion of each lesson. *If instructor will need to purchase and watch the entire Landfill Harmonic video personally in order to complete the entirety of this unit. Ths lesson will conclude with a clip from the movie, "landfill harmonic". This lesson was developed by Christine Sisco 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.

Students will make a book of homographs using pictures as definitions in order to have a visual connection of the multiple meanings one word can have.

In this engaging interactive, students unscramble a list of words and then use the circled letters to unscramble the bonus solution.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students about the language and vocabulary associated with colors. This language includes figurative language and idioms associated with colors. Students complete matching, fill in the gap, and question with partners. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/worksheets-topic/Colour_TN.pdf .

Students will read "If," write to explain, read and analyze the text for character traits and vocabulary, write examples of figurative language, write quotes to support a main idea, and write a narrative. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read proverbs and write to explain their inferred meanings. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read examples of onomatopoeia and use them to complete sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will use onomatopoeia to interpret visuals and then use the terms to write sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read and write to analyze "A Red, Red Rose," for vocabulary and use of similes. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and use context clues to figure out the meaning of antonyms. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences, identify the use of onomatopoeia, complete sentences using onomatopoeia, and write sentences that include onomatopoeia. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students read a piece of narrative nonfiction about the American Revolution. Students will determine which statements in the text can be proven true or false and which express someone's feelings or beliefs. Students will apply this comprehension skill to a discussion of how differences in opinion can lead to a revolution.