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Grade 5 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)

PDF | 24 pages | Grades: 5

A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Grade 5 students.

Liven up your reading small group rotations or guided reading groups with Teach Starter’s beautifully designed and highly informative magazine, What’s Buzzing?.

The magazine’s content has been specifically written for Grade 5 students. It uses age-appropriate vocabulary as well as a variety of different text types to address a wide range of relevant and engaging topics. The articles contained within the magazine directly relate to learning areas such as Science, History, Geography, Fine Arts, and PE.

Some of the highlights of this issue include:

“The Loudest Sound in the World” (narrative)
“How to Make a Twirling Spinner” (procedural)
“Species Snapshot – Narwhals” (informational)
“Earth Watch – From Fires to Flooding” (expository)
“Healthy Mind, Healthy Body – What’s Your Sport? (comic).

Task Cards

Five sets of task cards addressing the areas of writing, language, comprehension, reading strategies, and higher-order thinking skills have been developed to support and complement the magazine’s content. Download the What’s Buzzing? Task Cards.

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Grade 5 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards

A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 5 magazine.

For more information on this amazing teaching resource, read Ali’s blog (NEW) Grade 5 Magazine – What’s Buzzing?

Digital version

If you are looking to save time, ink, and paper, you can display a digital version of the magazine on your interactive whiteboard or one-to-one device using our online flip-book.

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Print version

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5

Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.A

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.C

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4.A

Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4.C

Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
1. Anchor Standards
2. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

ELAR 5.3(A)

Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, and word origin;
ELAR 5.3(B)

Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words;
ELAR 5.4

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to use appropriate fluency (rate...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.5

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and rea...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.6(A)

Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts;
ELAR 5.6(B)

Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
ELAR 5.6(C)

Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
ELAR 5.6(D)

Create mental images to deepen understanding;
ELAR 5.6(E)

Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
ELAR 5.6(F)

Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
ELAR 5.6(G)

Evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
ELAR 5.6(H)

Synthesize information to create new understanding; and
ELAR 5.6(I)

Monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
ELAR 5.8

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, ...
1. TEKS ELAR
2. TEKS ELAR 5
ELAR 5.9(D)

Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
ELAR 5.9(E)

Recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:

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