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

This lesson is for Grades 4 - 5 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

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.

It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.

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 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 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.

In this lesson, students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.

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.