ELAR 5.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
- (1) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a
particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as
brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;
- (A) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
- (B) organizing with purposeful structure, including an
introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and
- (i) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details;
- (ii) revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
- (C) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (D) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb
agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- (i) past tense of irregular verbs;
- (ii) collective nouns;
- (iii) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (iv) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
- (v) conjunctive adverbs;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
- (vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
- (viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
- (ix) punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences, quotation marks in dialogue, and italics and underlining for titles and emphasis; and
- (x) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
- (xi) publish written work for appropriate audiences.
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Adverb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
Reinforce your students understanding of adverbs with this fun card game.
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Adjective Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to reinforce their understanding of adjectives.
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Punctuation Worksheets - Upper Elementary
Punctuation worksheets with examples and definitions to help your students learn.
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Paragraph Study Grammar Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing students to learn and review grammar by highlighting paragraphs.
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Common and Proper Nouns - Sorting Task
Practice differentiating between common and proper nouns with this sorting activity.
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Invitation Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about invitations, including an annotated example.
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Literary Description Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about literary descriptions, including an annotated example.
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Review Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about reviews, including an annotated example.
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Personal Response Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about personal responses, including an annotated example.
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Interview Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about interviews, including an annotated example.
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Literary Recount Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about literary recounts, including an annotated example.
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Advertisement Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about advertisements, including an annotated example.
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Collective Nouns Match Up Activity - Objects and People
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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Collective Nouns Matchup Activity - Animals
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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Paragraph Study Punctuation Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise punctuation by highlighting paragraphs.
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Color by Parts of Speech Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of coloring worksheets that use parts of speech as indicators.
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September Homeschool Resource Pack - Grade 5
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 5 teaching resources and activities for homeschool parents to use with their children during the month of September.
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Exploring Types of Verbs Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit explores several types of verbs including action, helping, linking, irregular, simple tense, and perfect tense verbs. This unit is intended for upper-elementary students that have some prior knowledge of action verbs.
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Writing an Opinion Piece Unit Plan - Grade 5 and Grade 6
This English unit addresses the genre of opinion writing; specifically, how to write an effective opinion piece.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the narrative text type; specifically, how to write an engaging narrative text.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Writing a Narrative - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a narrative, using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Narrative Poetry - Simple Ballads
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a simple ballad.
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Descriptive Poetry - Odes
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write an ode.
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Humorous Poetry - Limericks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a limerick.
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Independent Writing - Amazing Achievements
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a historical recount using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Types of Verbs Assessment
A comprehensive assessment to be given at the end of the unit to assess students' understanding of various types of verbs.
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The Future Perfect Tense
A 60 minute lesson in which students practice identifying the future perfect tense within a text.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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The Present Perfect Tense
A 60 minute lesson in which students practice identifying the present perfect tense within a text.