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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Descriptive Poetry - Odes
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write an ode.
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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 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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Narrative Poetry - Simple Ballads
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a simple ballad.
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Humorous Poetry - Limericks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a limerick.
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Opinion Speeches - Constructing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct an opinion speech using appropriate text structure, language features and devices.
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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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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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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.
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The Past Perfect Tense
A 60 minute lesson in which students practice identifying the past perfect tense within a text.
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Subject-Verb Agreement
A 60 minute lesson in which students identify and practice subject-verb agreement.
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Verb Tenses and Irregular Verbs
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Past, Present, and Future Tense Verbs
A 60 minute lesson in which the students will learn about past, present, and future simple tense verbs.
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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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Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify action, helping, and linking verbs.
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Historical Recounts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of historical recounts.
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Irregular Verbs - The Oddballs
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and practice using irregular verbs.
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Using a Stimulus - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write an informative text, 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.