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Reading
English Language Arts

Reading/ELA includes the following:
  • Reading Literature
  • Reading Informational Text
  • Reading Foundational Skills
  • Writing
  • Speaking/Listening
  • Language
SPELLING- VOCABULARY THROUGH MORPHEMES
  • Designed to promote structural analysis through morphological awareness
  • Morphology – the structure of words through the smallest elements of meaning-morphemes-prefixes, roots, base words, and suffixes

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Grade 5 Reading Language Arts will begin with our unit  Earth- A Fine Balance  

Essential Student Understandings:  Students will understand that: 
  •     Good readers use strong textual evidence, connections to their own lives and their background              knowledge to make inferences and to draw conclusions about what they read.
  •     Good readers respond to a variety of text by drawing conclusions and using textual evidence to                analyze what they read and understand how it connects to their own lives.
  •     Good readers analyze the text to better understand the author's viewpoint/attitude and purpose. 
Good Readers Think Poster:
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Guiding Question:  What happens when nature interacts?
Here are some of the articles we are reading in class.  Please have your child read and share with you what we are learning in class.


Week 1 articles:
mystery_of_the_disappearing_frogs_1.pdf
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the_fox_next_door_1.pdf
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panda_shake_up_1.pdf
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will_red_panda_survive_1.pdf
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Week 2 articles:
wild_dogs_grade_5.pdf
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turns_out_that_when_the_going_got_tough_.pdf
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chesapeake_bay_vulnerable_to_climate_cha.pdf
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Week 3 articles and links:

Flight of the Hummingbird:  A Parable for the Environment
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Wangari Maathai links below:
my hero-Wangari Maathai
wangari maathi  greenbelt movement

Week 4: Jacques Cousteau

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jacques cousteau website created by us!
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