Updated 9-19-14
Check the Planner for Unit Plans and Critical Lists for Vocabulary
Library Curriculum Connections At-A-Glance
Grade 5 Unit 2 Theme: Investigations Essential Question: How do scientists learn about the natural world?
Literature
Selection
Genre
Hidden Worlds:
Looking Through
a Scientist’s
Microscope
by Stephen
Kramer
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Paired
Selection
Literary Text/
Poetry
WK THEME
Scientists at
Work
Rattlers!
by Ellen
Lambeth
WK THEME
Slithery Snakes
These Robots
Are Wild!
Time For Kids
Informational
WK THEME
Scientific
Discoveries
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Paired
Selection
Literary Text/
Folktale
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Technology /
Media
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Vocabulary
Strategies
McGraw-Hill Texas
Treasures TE
p. 245 I, J
TERMS graphic, clip
Genre
Poetry,Expository
Strategy
Summarize
Skill
Sequence LT
Draw Conclusions
LT
Word
Parts:
Greek and
Latin
Roots
art, multimedia
text box, cite
The Social Studies
lessons below are
listed at the end of
the 1st OI and
repeated here for
reference if 5th grade
camp has altered
timingIC LESSON Go West
Nystrom Atlas of our
Country’s History
My Expedition West
assignment-- Write a
journal, SEE
preparation links for
primary source in
Planner
IC LESSON A Country
Out of Balance--The
Civil War websites,
primary sources
photos, maps—use
Blendspace or make
Glogster (causes of
Civil War)
A Nation Divided
Research: student
news correspondents
collect information
about major events
of the Civil War-create a newspaper
using online
resources, websites,
Genre
Autobiography,
Expository,
Folktale
Strategy
Summarize
Skill
Main Idea /Details
Sequence
Context
Clues
Practice
fluency
with
Readers
Theater
K.O.I.: 5th Grade
Experiences: Paper
Bag Princess, writing
a Folktale with a
modern day twist
Genre
Letter, Expository
Strategy
Monitor
Comprehension
Skill
Author’s Purpose
Main Idea / Details
Word
Parts:
Greek and
Latin
Roots
Text
Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Rhythm and
Rhyme
Scheme identify
Hero and
Personification
ELA LT I can
understand the
text features…
connect and
compare
information.. in
a folktale
Using the
Library Media
Center
Day 4
ELA LT I
can…use a
library to help
find research
information
IC: Pre/Post Outdoor School Lessons, Intro to Science, Matter, Energy
Unit 2: Theme Related Library Resources
Writing
Write Source
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics:
Descriptive Writing/
Narrative Writing:
Descriptive Essay
(Model, Prewriting,
Drafting)
Skills: Adverbs,
Complete Subj /Pred,
Complete sentences,
conjunctions,
prepositions /prep_
phrases
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics:
Descriptive Writing/
Narrative Writing:
Descriptive Essay
(Revising, Editing); The
Writing Process:
Publishing and
Portfolios
Skills: collective Nouns,
Indefinite Pronouns,
Capitals, Abbreviations
(Initials, Acronyms,
Organizations).
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics:
Descriptive
Writing/Narrative
Paragraph (Model,
Prewriting, Drafting,
Revising, Editing);
Personal Narrative
(Model) Skills: Verbs
(irregular, active voice,
subject-verb agreemnt,
prepositions/phrases
Essential
Questions
Essential
Questions for
each IC Unit
are found in
Unit Plans on
the Planner
Social Studies Unit 3 from 1st OI
Pre/Post Outdoor School Lessons,
Science Units 1-3
Pre-Post-Camp/Outdoor School
Lessons--ecosystems and observations,
processes, tools, safety (Movable
lessons according to Camp schedule)
The Social Studies topics below are
listed at the end of the 1st OI and
repeated here for reference in case 5th
grade Camp has altered timing on the
calendarMIND MISSIONS
The British Are Coming…Again causes
and effects of the War of 1812
A House Divided Division: the Civil
War
SOCIAL STUDIES 15 days
Unit 3 Expansion and Disunion, 1800s
US Territorial Expansion / Louisiana
Purchase
Manifest Destiny (T. Gast, 1872)
Expedition of Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea
War of 1812, nationalism,
“Star-Spangled Banner”
Civil War – causes, tariff, secede, states’
rights, Union, Confederacy, Missouri
Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and
Fugitive Slave Law, Kansas –Nebraska Act,
election of Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction:
13th, 14th, 15th amendments
Expansion Transfer Task- Whose Life is
it Anyway? multiple viewpoints – students
create a poster to explain the perspective of
a person living in the time of US expansion
SCIENCE begins Oct 20- ends Dec 19
see page 2
Discovery Techbook – Primary Resource
Literature
Selection
Up in the Air:
The Story of
Balloon Flight
by Patricia
Lauber
Genre
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Paired
Selection
Literary Text/
Poetry
WK THEME
Balloon Flight
Hurricanes
by Seymour
Simon
WK THEME
Extreme
Weather
Show What You
Know
Spiral Review
Draw
Conclusions
Main
Idea/Details
Author’s
Purpose
Latin Roots
Charts
WK THEME
Review and
Assess
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Paired
Selection
Literary Text/
Poetry
Review/
Assess
Procedural
Text
Drama
Technology /
Media
print, encyclopedias
to find info
IC LESSON The Last
Brother related CUR
book—The Last
Brother (Noble)
ELA LT I can… find
the author’s purpose
in a reading selection
ELA
K.O.I 5th grade
planned experience
SEE Planner- Image
writing, shape poems
MEDIA LITERACY
Identifying
Audience
perspective / point
of view
Literacy Activities
test practice,
comprehension,
word , drama,
genre studies
COMPUTER
LITERACY
Skill Drawing/
Graphics
Skill Copying
Internet images
ELA LT I can…
present and evaluate
an oral report
(Theme Research)
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Vocabulary
Strategies
Genre
Biography
Expository, Poetry
Strategy
Monitor
Comprehension
Skill
Fact and Opinion
Spiral Review
Author’s Purpose
Word
Parts:
Greek
Roots
Genre
Poetry, Expository
Strategy
Analyze Text
Structure
Skill Description
Fact and Opinion
Dictionary
-MultipleMeaning
Words
ELA LT I can… find
facts and opinions in
expository text
Review/Assess
Sequence
Main Idea/ Details
Author’s Purpose
Fact and Opinion
Description
Review/
Assess
-Word
Parts
-Greek /
Latin
Roots
-Context
Clues
-MultipleMeaning
Words
McGraw–Hill Treasures, TE Grade 5; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, Write Source
Text
Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Simile and
Metaphor
ELA LT I can…
understand the
use of
metaphor and
simile in Haiku
poetry…correctl
y use simile and
metaphor in my
writing
Personification
Imagery, and
Onomatopoeia
ELA LT I can
…read and
understand
free verse
poems …define
and find
examples (of
the above) in
free verse..
Review
Assess
-Rhythm &
Rhyme
Scheme
-Hero and
Personification
-Simile &
Metaphor
-Imagery
Onomatopoeia
-Library
Media Center
Writing
Write Source
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics:
Descriptive
Writing/Narrative
Writing: Personal
Narrative (Prewriting,
Drafting)
Skills
Punctuating /Spacing
Dialogue, Transition
Words, Adjectives
Essential
Questions
Social Studies Unit 3 from 1st OI
Pre/Post Outdoor School Lessons,
Science Units 1-3
Unit 1 Introduction to Science 10 days
Processes, tools, and safety
Investigation and Reasoning Skills
Unit 2 Matter 15 days
Physical properties of matter (7):
mass, magnetism, physical states (3),
relative density (sinking and floating),
solubility in water, and the ability to conduct
thermal energy, conduct electric energy.
Mixtures and solutions--solubility
Magnetism
Boiling and Melting Point
Insulate or Conduct
Unit 3 Forms of Energy 15 days
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics
Descriptive
Writing/Narrative
Writing: Personal
Narrative (Revising)
Skills: Transition
words, Punctuating/
Spacing Dialogue,
Italics/Underlining
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics:
Descriptive Writing
Narrative Writing:
Personal Narrative
(Editing, Publishing);
Narrative Writing
Across the
Curriculum;
Skills: Subject-Verb
Agreement,
Punctuating/ Spacing
Dialogue, sentence
variety, letter writing
conventions, Unit
skills
cycle, system, energy ,source (review)
Mechanical energy
(kinetic, potential )- not in TEKS
Light energy – reflection, refraction,
concave, convex
Electrical energy – insulator, conductor,
circuit, current, insulate
Forces: friction, gravity, buoyancy,
magnetism
Transfer Task –Building a Better
Mousetrap
2014 IC Calendar
Sept 15-Oct 15 Hispanic Heritage Month
Sept 30 History Fair Chairperson Training
3:30-5, TBD
Oct 2-17 Geography Posters due Oct 17
on campus
Oct 24 Geography Posters due to
Texas Alliance Headquarters
Oct 14
Sci Fair Chairperson Training
Oct 5-11 National Fire Prevention Week
Oct 13
Fire Prevention Poster Contest
posters due to Mary Swinton @Admin
Oct 29
5:30 PM Citywide Fire Prevention
Poster Contest Awards, City Council Chambr
Nov3-Dec2 5th Grade SAR poster contest.
Posters to Lisa Wellborn by Dec 5
Nov 10-21 Campus History Fairs
Nov 16-22 Geography Awareness Week
Nov 11 Veterans Day – SEE Planner