This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 5th grade ELA content. Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

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 use literary elements to show similarities and differences of today's society to the past. Using the book, Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White students will be able to compare and contrast the characters Gypsies and Woodrows dilemmas in life to situations taking place in the home, society, and school today.

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. 

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In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.

This unit is designed for students to learn to make judgments and decisions based on facts, and to use informational and imaginative speech to present their personal viewpoint and opinion to others. Students experience, first hand, taxation without representation, and will develop a very real sense for the need to preserve the inherent freedoms of man. Using the American flag as a graphic organizer, students will develop a clear understanding of the actions and reactions of the American colonists to British rule and to our most important national holiday, the 4th of July. Historically significant events will be studied and organized through exploration of facts and opinions and interaction with informational text and class discussion.

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Students will read a biography about President Lincoln's life and write a summary based on the passage This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

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 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 a passage and examples, and then write to answer questions and apply a strategy based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and write textual evidence to support a main idea. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and write to answer questions based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and use context clues to determine the meanings of words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read background information and a passage. Students will then read questions and write answers to the questions. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage, write answers to questions based on the passage, and write to explain and justify their position. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.