Updated 10-22-14
Library Curriculum Connections At-A-Glance
OC/ OI: Physical Science
Unit 3 Theme Related Library Resources
Grade 5 Unit 3 Theme: Using Your Wits Essential Question: How can you use your intelligence to outwit others?
Literature
Selection
Genre
The Catch of the
Day: A Trickster
Play
Main
Selection
Literary Text/
Drama
Paired
Selection
Literary
Text/Fable
by Angela S.
Medearis
Illustr. by Wendy
Hollander
WK THEME
Tricksters
The Golden
Mare, the
Firebird, and the
Magic Ring
by
Ruth Sanderson
WK THEME
Thinking It Through
Tricky Tales
Time For Kids
Informational
WK THEME
Tales
Main
Selection
Literary Text/
Fairy Tale
Paired
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Main
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
Technology / Media
McGraw-Hill Texas
Treasures TE p. 381
I, J
TERMS
Email, attachment
Toolbar, virus
ELA LTs - I can
discuss the theme of a
story… identify the
morals or lessons of a
fable.. identify &
understand metaphors
in a reading selection
MEDIA LITERACY
Distinguish between
news (informative)and
advertisement
(persuasive)
ELA LT I can find
similarities and
differences in two
reading selections
Identify features of a
newspaper headlines,
bylines, captions,
international / local,
front page, sections,
Six-?s: who what
where when why how
ELA LT I can…
summarize a reading
selection… compare
and contrast how
things are alike and
different in a reading
selection
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Vocabulary
Strategies
Strategy
Analyze Story
Structure
Skill
Theme
Character and
Setting
Genre
Fable, Drama
Analogies:
Antonyms/
Synonyms
Strategy
Summarize
Skill
Theme
Homophones
Text Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Metaphor and
Moral
Venn Diagram
Genre
Fairy Tale
ELA LT I can read,
discuss, and
understand the
order of evens
that is common to
most fairy tales
Strategy
Summarize
Skill Compare
and Contrast
Genre Poetry
Homographs
Study
Strategies
*Two Bad Ants
(Van Allsburg)
Point of View
Writing
Experience—
SEE ELA
Planner
Writing
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics: (Write
Source)
Expository
Writing/Responding
to Texts: Writing a
Book Review
(Prewriting, Drafting)
Skills
Indefinite pronouns,
Sentence variety,
colons, subject-verb
agreement
Writing/GrammarMechanics: (Write
Source)
Expository
Writing/Responding
to Texts: Writing a
Book Review
(Revising, Editing)
Skills Sentence
Combining and
variety, conjunctions,
commas, irregular
verbs, colons
Writing/GrammarMechanics: (Write
Source)
Expository Writing:
Expository Paragraph
Expository Essay
(Prewriting, Drafting)
Skills Complete
sentences, transition
words, indefinite
pronouns
Essential
Questions
Essential
Questions
for each IC
Unit are
found in
Unit Plans
on the
Planner
3rd OI:
Physical Science
Units begin on Oct 20
For Unit Plans listed below and
critical K-5 Science Vocabulary, SEE
the Planner
SCIENCE
Investigation and Reasoning Skills
Unit 1 Introduction to Science
Unit Plan 10 days
hypothesis, variable, direct
observation, indirect observation,
validity, review: claim , evidence,
reliability, data
Notebooking, Scientific tools: safety
goggles, pan balances, spring scales,
meter rulers and sticks, graduated
cylinders, hand lenses, Celsius
thermometers
Testing and Communication:
Discovery Techbook Board Builder,
PowerPt, Prezi, etc.
Unit 2 Matter Unit Plan 15 days
relative density, (sink or float)
solubility, dissolve, Celsius scale, triple
beam balance, boiling point,
freezing/melting point, Review: solid,
liquid, gas, matter physical properties,
mixture, solution, mass, capacity,
volume, magnetism, insulate, conduct
Unit 3 Forms of Energy Unit Plan
15 days
classification based upon ability to
conduct or insulate thermal or
electrical energy
class example 7 Physical Properties of
Matter Graphic Organizer
Literature
Selection
Genre
Blancaflor
by
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by
Valerie Sokolova
Main
Selection
Literary Text/
Folktale
Paired
Selection
Informational
Text/
Expository
WK THEME
Challenges
The Unbreakable
Code
by
Sara H. Hunter
Ilustrated by
Julia Miner
WK THEME
Talking in Codes
Show What You
Know
Theme
Sequence
Compare &
Contrast
Context Clues
Metaphor
Time Line
WK THEME
Review and Assess
Main
Selection
Literary Text/
Historical
Fiction
Paired
Selection
Literary
Text/Poetry
Review
/Assess
Persuasive
Drama
Technology / Media
IC LESSON Energy
Launch Lesson—this is
scheduled to be
shown in the
classroom, but the
video The Most
Outrageous Way to
Share a Coke (in
Planner) is a must-see
for librarians-- Your
students may be
talking about it.
While this Lesson may
not take place in your
library, perhaps you
might display
examples from the
IC LESSON Energy and
Force Wrap-up
Building a Better
Mouse Trap -Classroom Transfer
Task-Student groups
are asked to design
(may make a model) of
a Rube Goldberg
machine (example
videos on Planner) to
demonstrate their
knowledge of force
and energy
Comprehension
Strategies and
Skills
Vocabulary
Strategies
Strategy
Visualize
Skill Theme
Compare and
Contrast
Genre Folktale,
Expository
Context Clues:
Figurative
Language
Strategy
Visualize
Skill Theme
Author’s
Perspective
Genre
Expository,
Historical Fic
Poetry
Context Clues
Show What You
Know
Test practice
Literacy Activity:
Comprehension,
Word Study,
Drama
Genre Study
ELA LTs -I can
identify sequence
in a fictional
story…story
elements in a
fictional
story…the theme
in a fictional story
Text Features/
Literary
Elements/
Study Skills
Tables
Consonance
and Symbolism
ELA LT I can
read and
understand how
literary elements
contribute to the
meaning of a
poem
(consonance,
symbolism)
Review/Assess
Analogies
Homophones
Homographs
Context Clues
/Figurative
Language
Context Clues
McGraw–Hill TexasTreasures, TE Grade 5; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, Write Source
Review/Assess
Metaphor &
Moral
Venn Diagrams
Study
Strategies
Tables
Consonance &
Symbolism
Writing
Write Source
Writing/GrammarMechanics: (Write
Source)
Expository Essay
(Revising, Editing)
Skills Transition
words, indefinite
pronouns, sentence
variety, effective
sentences
Writing/GrammarMechanics: (Write
Source)
Expository Writing:
Expository Writing
Across Curriculum;
Writing for the Texas
Assessment
(Expository)
Skills Collective
nouns, adjectives,
adverbs
Writing: (Write
Source)
Expository Writing:
Responding to a
Nonfiction Article
(Prewriting, Drafting,
Revising, Editing)
Skills
Quotations, Letter
Writing Conventions,
Review Unit Skills
MEDIA LITERACY
In the News
COMPUTER
LITERACY
email attachments
computer viruses
Essential
Questions
3rd OI:
Physical Science
Units begin on Oct 20
(mass, magnetism, physical state,
relative density (sinking/floating)
solubility, conductivity – electrical
energy, conductivity -thermal energy
3 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas)
Types of Energy: Energy systems,
mechanical (simple machines,
potential and kinetic energy)
light (reflection, refraction, concave,
convex)
electrical
sound
thermal, heat
Forces—friction, gravity, buoyancy,
magnetism
CALENDAR
5th Grade SAR Poster Contest
Nov 3 – Dec 2
Posters due to Lisa Wellborn Dec 5
Campus History Fair
Nov 10-21
Geography Awareness Week
Nov 16-22
Veterans Day
Nov 11
Campus Science Fairs
Dec 1-Jan 16