Mayport Elementary Fifth Grade Pacing Guide, 2009-2010
Lesson Resources:
► RiverDeep: District Anchor Lessons
♦ Lessons for the Writer’s Notebook by Ralph Fletcher (Heinemann)
♥ Launching the Writing Workshop Grades 3-5 by Lucy Calkins (Heinemann)
◘ Memoir: The Art of Writing Well Grades 3-5 by Lucy Calkins (Heinemann)
 Lessons that Change Writers by Nancie Atwell (Heinemann)
Houghton Mifflin: Writing Handbook
■ Writing Superstars: How to Score More Than Ever Before by Melissa Forney (Buttery Moon Multimedia)
☺Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8 by Ralph Fletcher (Stenhouse)
 Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing by Ralph Fletcher (Stenhouse)
♣ Thinking Through Genre: Units of Study in Reading and Writing Workshops 4-12 by Heather Lattimer (Stenhouse)
 America’s Choice –Allen Say, Author Study (NCEE)
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Narrative
Report
Narrative Procedure
Response to Literature
Persuasive
Author Study
Reader’s Workshop
1st 9weeks
8/24/09
Diagnostic Assessment
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
District Learning Schedule (Writing)
District Lesson 11-55 (9 Weeks)
District Lesson 56-90 (7 Weeks)
District Lesson 91-110 (4 Weeks)
District Lesson 111-145 (6 Weeks)
District Lesson 146-165 (4 Weeks)
America’s Choice Author Study (4 Weeks)
Testing
Strategies
Writer’s Workshop
Assessment prompt from diagnostic
Skills Block
Spelling
Review prior knowledge
(punctuation, capitalization, etc.)
Anchor Lessons/ Launching the Writing Workshop:
DRA’s
►Lesson 1: Routines for Writing Workshop
►Lesson 2: Writer’s Source Book/♦N-1 – N-4: The
Notebook/♦N-9: Comfortable Writing
►Lessons 3-4: Ways to Find Topics (Best and Worst Time,
Special Objects)/ ♦N-12: Gathering Artifacts/♦N-13:
Capturing Memories/♥Writing from Inside a Memory p. 135
♦N-5 – N-8, N-10: Writing from the World Around You
8/31/09
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
Foundations Unit 1 Empathy Training (Lessons 15)
Foundations Unit 2 Impulse Control and Problem
Solving (Lessons 1-5)
Review base words, syllabication,
root words – struct , tupt
Sentence Fragments
Anchor Lessons/ Launching the Writing Workshop
4 – Types of sentences
Back to school
words
►Lesson 5: Organizing Our Work
►Lesson 7: Conference/♥Writer’s Job in a Conference p. 37
♥Choosing a Seed Idea p.59/♦N-11: Starting a Seed Idea
►Lesson 9: Qualities of Good Writing –Keeping Stories
Focused/♦N-17: Stretch Writing/♥Qualities of Good Writing
– Focus, Detail, and Structure p.28/■Lesson 42: Voice and
Passion p. 105-107
DRA’s
9/8/09
9/14/09
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
Foundations Unit 1Empathy Training (Lessons 6,7)
Foundations Unit 2 Impulse Control and Problem
Solving (Lessons 6-7)
Comprehension Skill:
Text Organization
Anchor Lessons/ Launching the Writing Workshop /
Narrative Writing:
Earthquake Terror
►Lesson 8: Student Response Groups
►Lesson 6: When You Think You Are Done- You Have
Just Begun!/ ♥Taking Charge or our Writing: Starting a
Second Piece p. 103
♥Writing Discovery Drafts p. 83
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
Anchor Lessons/ Launching the Writing Workshop /
Narrative Writing:
Comprehension Skill:
Predict and Infer
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
Comprehension Skill:
Categorize and Classify
Rituals and Routines from Anchor Lessons
Compare / Contrast
Comprehension Skill:
Unit 1 Benchmark Test
Review 4 types of sentences
Subject – Predicates
Capitalization, punctuation
*Words with
long vowel
sounds
Words with
O, OO, YOO,
sounds
Narrative Writing:
Using a Thesaurus
♦ I-8: Use Plot, Place, and Character in a Story
■Lesson 21: Storyboarding p.63/Grade 5 - Lesson 4:Text
Structure – B,M,E p. 16-17
Lesson 12: Narrative Leads p. 50
■Lesson 14: Types of Grabbers/Lesson 13: Writing a
Grabber p. 42/p.41
Singular and Plural Nouns
Reread and
“prove it” in
the text
Narrative Writing:
Use and practice skills taught
Reinforce
reading all
choices and
“proving it”
in text
Narrative Writing:
Night of the Twister
Blizzard
10/5/09
Subject / Predicate
Read all
directions
and choices
Volcanoes
9/28/09
*Words with
short vowel
sounds
♥Timeline as Tools for Planning Stories p. 113/♦N-19:
Making a Plan
♦N-20: Crafting a Finished Piece
♥Using Editing Checklists p. 169
►Lesson 10: Studying Published Authors and Their Craft
Eye of the Storm
9/21/09
Dictionary skills review– ABC,
guide words
Multiple Meaning Words
♦I-28: Work with an External Conflict/♦I-29: Work with an
Internal Conflict/Grade 5 – Lesson 1: Plot-Significant
Event p.10-11
♦I-27: Use Details to Bring the Setting Alive/Grade 5 –
Lesson 3: Setting – Time and Place p.14-15
♦I-30, I-31, I-32 – Writing in First, Second, and Third
Person
Grade 5: Lesson 5 Text Structure – Flashback/Memories
p. 18-19/Grade 5: Lesson 6 Text Structure – Story within a
Story p. 20-21
Grade 4: Compressing Time to move the Plot p. 2425/Grade 5: Lesson 7 -Compression p.22-23
Varying Sentence Types
Words related in
spelling and
meaning
■Lesson 36: Transitional Phrases p.93-94/■Lesson 25:
Sentence Variety Types p. 75
Grade 4: Lesson 6 – Seesaw Text Structure p. 2021/Grade 4: Lesson 7 – Setting in Seesaw Text Structure
p. 24-25
Narrative Writing:
Practice skills taught
10/12/09
Comprehension Skill:
Question
Monitor / Clarify
Policeman
Strategy –
Stop and
think
Lesson 17: Can A Reader Hear it, See it, Feel it?
P.66/■Lesson 34: Sensory Words p. 89-90
♦L-9: Using Fresh Language
♦L-19: Write Believable Dialogue/Lesson 71: How to
Punctuate Dialogue p.244
Lesson 20: The Really Bad Words p. 80/■Lesson 38:
Tacky Expressions p. 96/■Lesson 40: Strong Verbs p.100102
Skim Text –
look for key
words
Narrative Writing:
Common / Proper nouns
Lesson 33: Ways to Develop Characters p. 117/Grade 5:
Lesson 10 - Character Development p. 28-29/♦I-22: Bring
Your Characters to Life
♦I-23:Describe what Your Character Looks Like
♥L-7: Try Repetition in Narrative Writing
■Lesson 18: Conclusions p. 49-56
♦D-23: Come Up with the Right Ending/ D-25: End With
Humor/D-26: End with your Strongest Line
Singular /Plural possessive nouns
Tall Tales
10/19/09
Last wk
of
1stgrading
period
Comprehension Skill:
Evaluate
Michelle Kwan – Heart of a champion
Reader’s Workshop
2nd 9
Weeks
10/27/09
Comprehension Skill:
Summarize – problem & events in your own words
Writer’s Workshop
Testing
Strategies
Fill in blank
with all
choices
Report
Comprehension Skill:
Compound Words
Skills Block
Action verbs
Spelling
Or, ar, air sounds
Direct Objects
Labamba
11/2/09
Compound
Words
Report
Root – spec , opt
Suffixes ward, ous, ive, ic
Review & Reteach
Ur , ir words
Dictionary Skills – multiple meaning
words; syllables
Review and
reteach
Story Structure
(Monitor / Clarify)
Mae Jemison: Space Scientist
11/9/09
Comprehension Skill:
Connecting and comparing Literature
Testing
Strategy
Report
Iditarod Dream / Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid
11/16/09
Comprehension Skill:
Focus on Genre
Poetry
Main Verbs
Inferencing
Report
Linking Verbs
Word Families
Homophones
Verb Tenses
Poetry words
11/23,
11/24
11/30/09
DRA’s
Report
Comprehension Skill:
Sequencing
Report
Review / Reteach skills
Report
Possesive and Contractions
Unit 2 Benchmark Test
DRA’s
12/7/09
Comprehension Skill:
Author’s Viewpoint
er sounds
Subject / Verb Agreements
And thenWhat Happened, Paul Revere?
Regular / Irregular verbs
12/14/09
Comprehension skill:
Key Words
Publishing Party – Response groups, commenting on postits 
Syllabication – vccv – vcv patterns
Vccv and vcv
patterns
Verb Phrases with have
Cause and Effect
(Summarizing)
Synonyms / antonyms
1/4/10
Katie’s Trunk
Comprehension skill:
Following Directions
ABCs of
Checking
Your Work

Prefixes – sub , sur
Similies
Functional
Final l or el
sounds
Adjectives
James Forten
1/11/10
Last week
of grading
period
3rd 9weeks
Comprehension skill:
1/25/10
Comprehension skill:
2/1/10
Dictionary: spelling table/pro. key
Review and Reteach
Functional
Unit 3 Benchmark Test
Reader’s Workshop
Writer’s Workshop
Testing
Strategies
Review
Functional
Skills Block
Syllabication – vccv – vcv patterns
Problem Solving / Decision Making
Comma’s in a series
Mariah Keeps Cool
Dictionary – inflected forms,
prefixes,
Review Word endings – ed , ing
Suffixes – ly, ness, ment, ful, less
Comprehension skill:
Portfolio
Review
Response to Literature
Noting Details
(Question)
2/8/10
Review words
Mom’s Best Friend
Comprehension skill:
Spelling
Vcccv patterns
vv pattern
Comparing with Adjectives (good /
bad)
Response to Literature
Interjections
Compare / Contrast
Quotations
Yang the Second and her Secret Admirers
Word connotations
Words with –er, ing endings
2/16/10
Comprehension skill:
Response to Literature
Making Inferences
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Comprehension skill:
Response to Literature
3/2/10
Focus on Genre - Plays
Comprehension skill:
Unit 4 Benchmark Test
Publishing Party – Response groups, commenting on postits 
3/9/10
FCAT
FCAT
3/16/10
Comprehension skill:
Persuasive
2/23/10
Titles
Words with ly,
ness, ment, ful,
less suffixes
Review skills taught
Unusual patterns
Prefixes – com, con, en, ex, pre, pro
Words with
prefixes
Making Generalizations
Using context
The Grizzly Bear Family Book
Contractions - negatives
3/23/10
3 – syllable words
Dictionary – Pronounciation
Persuasive
Review & Reteach
3/30/10
Abbreviations
Comprehension skill:
Prepositions & phrases
Suffixes – ent, ant, able, ible
Persuasive
Object Pronouns in phrases
Topic, Main Idea and Supporting Details
(Monitor /Clarify)
3 – syllable
words
Words that end
with ent, ant,
able, ible
Place names and Proper Adjectives
The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home
Publishing Party – Response groups, commenting on postits 
Review Skills
Review
4/15/10
Last week
of grading
period
4th 9weeks
Review & Reteach
4/22/10
Author Study
Allen Say
Author Study
Allen Say
Practice all parts of speech in a
sentence. (Diagramming Sentences)
Author Study
words
4/29/10
Author Study
Allen Say
Author Study
Allen Say
Practice all parts of speech in a
sentence. (Diagramming Sentences)
Author Study
words
5/6/10
Author Study
Allen Say
Author Study
Allen Say
Practice all parts of speech in a
sentence. (Diagramming Sentences)
Author Study
words
Reader’s Workshop
Writer’s Workshop
Testing
Strategies
Skills Block
Spelling
5/13/10
Author Study
Allen Say
Author Study
Allen Say
DRA’s
5/20/10
Comprehension skill:
Narrative Writing
Drawing Conclusions
My Side of the Mountain
DRA’s
5/27/10
Comprehension skill:
Narrative Writing
Unit 6 Benchmark Test
6/7/10
End of the Year Activities
Narrative Writing
Practice all parts of speech in a
sentence. (Diagramming Sentences)
Author Study
words