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Common Core: ELA
CCLS - ELA: RI.5.4
- Category
- Reading Informational
- Sub-Category
- Craft and Structure
- State Standard:
- Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
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- Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Inventions That Changed People’s Lives In this eight-week module, students learn about new or improved technologies that have been developed to...
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- In the second unit of this module, students will complete a close read of the book Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America, by Sharon Robinson. As the author (Jackie Robinson’s daughter...
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- In this brief unit, students will build their background knowledge about the importance of sports within the American culture over time. They will read two informational articles: “It’s Not Just a...
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- In this third unit, students will return to the genre of the graphic novel, reviewing the elements that make this type of work uniquely suited to conveying an author’s complex ideas in an engaging...
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- In Unit 2, students continue to build their reading and writing skills as well as their understanding of how new or improved technologies are developed to meet the needs of society, through a case...
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- In this unit, students begin to build background knowledge about the process of scientific inquiry and how new or improved technologies are developed to meet the needs of society.
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- Researching about the Red Cross, Continued: Who Is the Red Cross and What Does This Multinational Organization Do?
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- Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 2
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- Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 1
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- Synthesizing Information from Texts about Natural Disasters: What Makes an Earthquake a Natural Disaster?
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- Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent Short-Answer Quiz—The Effects of Natural Disasters
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- Relationships between Key Scientific Concepts: What Causes Hurricanes?
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- Relationships between Key Scientific Concepts: What Causes Earthquakes?
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- Students work with pages 58–63 of Promises to Keep, which they read once independently for homework. They will locate evidence, develop an opinion, and then support their opinion with a reason and...
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- Students will create and use an Author’s Opinion, Reasons, and Evidence graphic organizer to record the opinion, reasons, and evidence they identify during a close read of pages 38–45 of Promises to...
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- Students compare and contrast multiple accounts of the same event.
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- Mid-Unit Assessment: Identifying Author’s Opinion, Reasons, and Supporting Evidence: “Courage on the Field”
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- This lesson follows a similar pattern to that of Lessons 2, 4, and 7. Students read pages 26–29 of Promises to Keep and use an Author’s Opinion, Reasons, and Evidence graphic organizer to record the...
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- Students once again practice the skill of paraphrasing and recording the opinion they identify from a new page of the text in Promises to Keep.
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- In this lesson, students are reintroduced to and practice RI.5.3 again. Students work to follow the sequence of events in Jackie Robinson’s life and in the United States across decades, analyze...
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- In this lesson, students deepen their understanding of Jackie Robinson’s life by examining a key period in American history that affected him and his family: the Great Migration.
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- This lesson focuses on the chapter “A Black and White World” and the first paragraph of “Signs of Hope” (on page 10), from Promises to Keep. The literary instructional focus of the lesson is on...
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- This lesson introduces Promises to Keep, the central text the class will read throughout Unit 2.
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- Identifying Opinions and Evidence: The Importance of Sports in American Society, Part I