Language Arts – 5th grade
Jodi Wokocha
Week of November 14, 2011
Objectives
1.04 – Use
dictionaries to
identify and
comprehend
unknown words.
2.02 – Interact with
the text before,
during, and after
reading.
Materials
Writing
notebooks
Dictionaries
CD
Reading book
Station work
Gaggle Tube
Video
Procedures
Writing prompt: Write a story from a fish’s perspective about
pollution in the water. How would you feel? How would the
pollution affect you? Students will be given 10-15 minutes to
write. They will be given time to share after writing.
Go over Vocabulary – students will look up definitions.
Students will watch the Gaggle Tube video about Jane Goodall.
Listen to the selection on CD – Students will follow along in their
books.
Stations
Evaluation
Class
discussion,
student
responses,
and station
work.
Homework
Get Newsletter
signed. Read 20
minutes. Fill out
reading log and get
it signed. Write the
definitions to #1-10
spelling words.
Tuesday 11-15
2.09 – Listen
actively and
critically by asking
questions.
SMART board
activity
Reading books
Station work
Class
discussion,
student
responses,
and station
work
Read 20 minutes.
Fill out reading log
and get it signed.
Write the
definitions to #1120 spelling words.
Wednesday
11-16
3.02 – Make
connections within
texts by
recognizing
similarities and
differences
2.05 – Evaluate
inferences,
conclusions, and
generalizations and
provide evidence
by referencing the
text.
3.01 – Respond to
fiction using
interpretive,
critical, and
evaluative process.
Grammar
book
Reading book
Station work
Go over main and helping verbs. SMART board activity.
Review vocabulary.
Class read “Jane Goodall” – ask guided reading questions while
reading
Watch a video about Jane Goodall’s reflections over her work.
Discuss Fact and Opinion (page 208) Read page 209 and have
students point out facts and opinion statements.
Stations
Review main and helping verbs. Grammar book page 98
Review fact and opinion – students will find 3 facts and 3
opinions from story
Review vocabulary.
Group read “Jane Goodall.”
Stations
Review Main and helping verbs. Grammar books page 100 #1-6
and page 101 #1-6.
Students will group read “Jane Goodall”
Stations.
Spelling pre-test. If students pass today, they won’t have to take
the test Friday.
Class
discussion,
student
responses,
and station
work
Class
discussion,
student
responses,
and station
work
Read 20 minutes.
Fill out your
reading log. Write
a story using at last
10 spelling words.
Monday 11-14
Thursday
11-17
Library Day
Friday 11-18
Grammar
book
Reading test
CD
Spelling test
Read 20 minutes.
Fill out your
reading log. Study
your spelling
words.
Students will listen to the story on CD one last time before test.
Reading
Have a wonderful
Reading test – open book
selection
weekend!
Planetarium
Students will be given 5-10 minutes to study spelling words and
test and
definitions.
spelling
Students will grade tests. Tests below a 70% will go in end-oftest.
year file. Note will go home.
**Students will be completing Mountain Language daily and will be going over the answers on the SMART Board. A participation grade will be given.