5th Grade Language Arts
Unit 3 Week 1
The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine - Comprehension
Key Learning:
Readers use the sequence or order of events to
retell or summarize the important events or details
from a text.
Essential Question:
How do readers use sequence to
summarize the events or details from
various texts?
Concept: Sequence
Concept: Summarize
Lesson Essential Question:
What is sequence?
Lesson Essential Question:
How do readers summarize?
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
time-order words, sequential, summary, retell, story elements,
chronological order, important main idea, text structure
events, important details
5th Grade Language Arts
Unit 3 Week 1
The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine - Vocabulary
Key Learning:
A reader uses context clues to make sure the
meaning they are using make sense and is the
correct meaning of the word.
Essential Question:
How do readers use context clues to help
them figure out a word that has more than
one meaning?
Concept: Multiple-Meaning
Words
Concept: Shades of Meaning
Lesson Essential Question:
What are multiple-meaning
words?
Lesson Essential Question:
What are shades of meaning?
Vocabulary:
homograph, homonym, homophone
Vocabulary:
similar, synonyms, word parts, suffixes,
prefixes
5th Grade Language Arts
Unit 3 Week 1
The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine - Grammar
Key Learning:
Verbs are used to show tense or time,
sequence, or condition.
Essential Question:
What is the difference among past,
present, and future tense verbs?
Concept: Past Tense Verbs
Concept: Present Tense Verbs
Lesson Essential Question: Lesson Essential Question:
What is a past tense verb? What is a present tense
verb?
Concept: Future Tense Verbs
Lesson Essential Question:
What is a future tense
verb?
Vocabulary:
tense, time, sequence, condition, suffix, -ed, -ing, helping verb