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Grade 5 Scope and Sequence

This resource offers a comprehensive outline of the content for each module, ensuring a structured and systematic approach to instruction and assessment.

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Assessment Opportunities

AreaTimingStrategy

Word Study Assessments

Every 5 days during Shared Reading

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Word Study Progress

Once each month, for students with weak achievement on Word Study Assessments

Grades 3–5: Spelling Tool to track progress

Text Connections

Every 5 days

Review 4 times per module using the Grade 5: Written Response Rubric to evaluate evidence of text comprehension

Opinion Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 5: Opinion Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Narrative Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 5: Narrative Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Informative Writing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 5: Informative Writing Rubric applied to finished writing

Editing

Once per module during ELA

Grade 5: Editing and Revision Rubric applied to finished writing

Speaking and Listening

Once per month during ELA

Observation with rubrics during ELA:

Content Knowledge, Literacy Knowledge, and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

At the end of each module during ELA

Culminating Task Rubrics:

Shared Reading

Module 1

Unit 1: Self-Discovery

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 30: Walk Two Moons

  • Lessons 1–5: comfort, defend, impress, respect, restore, return
  • Lessons 6–10: drama, flinch, judge, potential, sprawls, tradition
  • Lessons 11–15: assure, cantankerous, cavorted, confess, connect, merely
  • Lessons 16–20: careening, descended, hope, plummet, sacrifice, tentative
  • Lessons 21–25: badgered, nonchalant, poise, quivering, relieve, tense
  • Lessons 26–30: discover, independent, legitimate, mischievous, realize, survivor
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.5, L.5.6, RF.5.3.a, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RF.5.4.c, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.10, SL.5.1, W.5.7

Unit 2: Life Science

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

31 – 37: Animal Cells and Life Processes

  • Lessons 31–35: cells, digestive, nucleus, organ, organelle, organism, pigment, reproduce
  • Lessons 36–37: meiosis, mitosis
  • Text Connection (L35)
  • Word Study Assessment (L35)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

38 – 45: Plant Cells and Life Processes

  • Lessons 38–40: tissue, waste
  • Lessons 41–45: disease, ecosystem, osmosis, photosynthesis, transpiration, unicellular
  • Text Connection (L40, L45)
  • Word Study Assessment (L40, L45)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.5.9, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

Module 2

Unit 1: Earth Science

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 5: Volcano

  • Lessons 1–5: avalanche, colonizers, eruption, explosion, lava, survivors
  • Text Connection (L5)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.8, RI.5.9, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

6 – 10: Oceans

  • Lessons 6–10: currents, gyre, ridge, tides, trench, tsunami
  • Text Connection (L10)
  • Word Study Assessment (L10)
L.5.4, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.10, SL.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.9

11 – 15: The Sun

  • Lessons 11–15: atmosphere, atom, orbit, revolve, solar system, sunspot
  • Text Connection (L15)
  • Word Study Assessment (L15)
L.5.4, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

Unit 2: Unlikely Alliances

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

16 – 45: The Westing Game

  • Lessons 16–20: executor, heir, inherit, luxurious, motive, obituary
  • Lessons 21–25: alibi, coincidence, defiantly, paralyze, suspicion, timid
  • Lessons 26–30: irony, plot thickens, resemblance, restraining, share, tension
  • Lessons 31–35: astounded, deliberately, financier, foreshadow, incriminating, resolution
  • Lessons 36–40: accomplice, charred, confessed, crossroads, sacrifice, witness
  • Text Connection (L20, L25, L30, L35, L40, L45)
  • Word Study Assessment (L20, L25, L30, L35, L40)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.5, L.5.5.b, L.5.5.c, L.5.6, RF.5.3.a, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.10, SL.5.1

Module 3

Unit 1: Hope and Perseverance

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 20: Bud, Not Buddy

  • Lessons 1–5: commence, depression, provoked, revenge, terrified, tolerate
  • Lessons 6–10: cardboard jungle, devoured, hypnotized, orphanage, riding the rails, taste
  • Lessons 11–15: judgmental, obvious, rehearse, reputation, resourceful, unions
  • Lessons 16–20: bawling, blended, fumble, insinuating, jazz, rummage
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.5, L.5.5.b, L.5.5.c, L.5.6, RF.5.3.a, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.10, SL.5.1

Unit 2: Physics

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

21 – 26: How Does a Waterfall Become Electricity?

  • Lessons 21–25: dam, electricity, generator, hydroelectric, reservoir, waterwheel
  • Text Connection (L25)
  • Word Study Assessment (L25)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.7, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

27 – 35: Ice to Steam

  • Lessons 27–30: condensation, evaporation, gas, liquid, precipitation, solid
  • Lessons 31–35: basalt, boiling point, granite, melting point, subliming, volcano
  • Text Connection (L35)
  • Word Study Assessment (L30, L35)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.9, RI.5.10, SL.5.1

Module 4

Unit 1: Demonstrating Courage

Lesson Range and Anchor TextVocabulary and Word StudyCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 30: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

  • Lessons 1–5: conscription, oblige, prodigious, truss, whinny, wretched
  • Lessons 6–10: abolitionists, civilized, conductor, drew, gemstone, skitter
  • Lessons 11–15: guardian, ingenuity, injustice, ruffian, steward, tormentors
  • Lessons 16–20: caravan, elixir, exhibitions, indignity, inspiration, muffle
  • Lessons 21–25: betray, eventually, feverishly, inquiries, requisitioned, scampered
  • Lessons 26–30: artillery, confinement, cruel, duped, trench, wrenches
  • Text Connection (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
  • Word Study Assessment (L5, L10, L15, L20, L25, L30)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.5, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RI.5.4, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.10, SL.5.1

31 – 45: Half and Half

  • Lessons 31–35: conscious, customs, ethnically diverse, exotic, heritage, thrifty
  • Lessons 36–40: authentic, bewildered, conflict, exposition, hyperbole, notable
  • Lessons 41–45: climax, falling action, juxtaposition, rising action, strained, suspense
  • Text Connection (L35, L40, L45)
  • Word Study Assessment (L35, L40, L45)
L.5.4, L.5.4.b, L.5.5, L.5.5.b, L.5.6, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, RF.5.4.a, RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.9, RL.5.10, SL.5.1

English Language Arts

Module 1

Unit 1: Writing With a Purpose

Lesson Range and TypeAnchor TextsVocabularyGrammarCheck for UnderstandingStandards Addressed

1 – 5: Narrative Writing

Walk Two Moons

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.d, W.5.3, W.5.3.a, W.5.3.b, W.5.3.e, W.5.4, W.5.5

6 – 10: Opinion Writing

Walk Two Moons

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.d, W.5.1, W.5.4

11 – 13: Read Aloud

Keep On!

navigate, course, sledge, grueling, resourceful, devised

Sentence Composing

  • Combine
  • Expand
  • Text Connections
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.e, L.5.2.a, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.5, L.5.6, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.10

14 – 19: Informative Writing

Walk Two Moons; Keep On!

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.d, W.5.2, W.5.2.a, W.5.2.b, W.5.2.c, W.5.5, W.5.9

20 – 25: Read Aloud

Rats Around Us

Embedded Vocabulary

Sentence Composing

  • Combine
  • Imitate
  • Expand
  • Text Connections
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.2.a, L.5.2.b, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.4.a, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.8, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.10

26 – 35: Narrative Writing

Keep On!; Walk Two Moons

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, L.5.3.a, L.5.5.c, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.4, W.5.3, W.5.3.a, W.5.3.b, W.5.3.d, W.5.3.e, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6

Unit 2: Powerful Words

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36: Read Aloud

Messenger, Messenger

squints, blare

Sentence Composing

  • Imitate
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.d, L.5.3, L.5.3.b, L.5.6, RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.7, W.5.10

37: Read Aloud

Hoops

thicket, tense

Sentence Composing

  • Combine
  • Imitate
  • Respond Together

L.5.1, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.d, L.5.3, L.5.3.b, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.7, RL.5.9, W.5.2

38 – 40: Read Aloud

The Boy Who Loved Words

N/A

Sentence Composing

  • Combine
  • Expand
  • Imitate
  • Respond Together

L.5.1, L.5.1.e, L.5.2.b, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.5.a, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.4, RL.5.6, RL.5.9, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, W.5.2, W.5.10

Unit 3: Compare and Contrast

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41 – 45: Culminating Task

Animal Cells and Life Processes; Plant Cells and Life Processes

N/A

N/A

N/A

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, SL.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.7

Module 2

Unit 1: History of Science

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1 – 4: Read Aloud

The Flu of 1918

Embedded Vocabulary

Sentence Composing

  • Imitate
  • Expand
  • Combine
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.1.e, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.4, RI.5.8, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3

5 – 14: Read Aloud

The Wright Brothers

N/A

Sentence Composing

  • Expand
  • Imitate
  • Unscramble
  • Combine
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.1.e, L.5.2.b, L.5.2.c, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.6, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.4, RI.5.8, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.3, W.5.8, W.5.9, W.5.10

Unit 2: History of Civil Rights

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15 – 32: Read Aloud

The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963

wobble, delinquent, punctual, intimidate, frostbite, shrug, stagger, peon, mourning, overthrown, tolerate, pinnacle, haphazard, seniority, transferred, deformed, puny, wily, hilarious, cruise, electrocute, o, execute

Sentence Composing

  • Combine
  • Expand
  • Imitate
  • Unscramble
  • Text Connections
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.b, L.5.2.c, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.3.b, L.5.4, L.5.5, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.6, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.10

33 – 45: Culminating Task

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.4, SL.5.5, W.5.2, W.5.2.a, W.5.2.b, W.5.2.c, W.5.2.e, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.7, W.5.8, W.5.9

Module 3

Unit 1: Themes in Poetry

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1 – 2: Read Aloud

Poetry: The Grackle, Pigeon, Something Told the Wild Geese

deem, debacle, commute, gloss

Sentence Composing

  • Imitate
  • Respond Together
  • Text Connections

L.5.5, L.5.5.a, L.5.6, RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.9, W.5.1, W.5.10

3 – 4: Read Aloud

Poetry: Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue, The Earth is a Living Thing

N/A

N/A

  • Respond Together

RF.5.4.b, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.5, W.5.10

Unit 2: The Underground Railroad

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5 – 8: Read Aloud

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

underground, sympathizer, ramshackle, bedraggled, bounty, compartment, resounding, joyous

Sentence Composing

  • Expand
  • Combine
  • Unscramble
  • Imitate
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.b, L.5.2.c, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.5, L.5.5.c, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, W.5.1, W.5.3, W.5.10

9 – 12: Informative Writing

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, RI.5.9, SL.5.1.a, SL.5.1.b, W.5.2, W.5.2.a, W.5.2.b, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.7, W.5.8

Unit 3: Doing What’s Right

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13 – 25: Read Aloud

A Single Shard

protrude, oblivious, ribbed, derision, resentful, staggered, mire, bland, accomplished, arduous, emissary, impending, feign, dismissive, peril, frenetic, scavenge, secrete, mock, grimace, rueful, don, quell, dignified, skeptical, threshold, solemn

Sentence Composing

  • Expand
  • Combine
  • Imitate
  • Text Connections
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.a, L.5.2.c, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.10

26 – 35: Culminating Task

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, L.5.5.c, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.4, SL.5.6, W.5.1, W.5.1.a, W.5.1.b, W.5.1.c, W.5.1.d, W.5.3.d, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.8

Module 4

Unit 1: Trail of Tears

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1 – 16: Read Aloud

The Porcupine Year

resounded, meandering, exile, portage, hoisted, uncanny, imperious, cache, bewildered, culprit, concealed, kindle, elude, hunkered, council, bereft, vigor, endurance, infuriated, ministrations, skeletal, emerge, gristle, turbulent, bereaved, floundering, belligerently, arrogance, recede, discreetly, consulted, mutual

Sentence Composing

  • Unscramble
  • Expand
  • Imitate
  • Combine
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.b, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.5.b, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.10

17 – 22: Informative Writing

The Porcupine Year

N/A

N/A

  • Work Session Product

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, W.5.2.a, W.5.2.b, W.5.2.d, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.7, W.5.8, W.5.9

Unit 2: The Importance of Story

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23 – 35: Read Aloud

Tuck Everlasting

contemplation, accessible, frantic, exasperated, remnant, reluctantly, dismay, abruptly, melancholy, shimmered, perilous, decisive, routine, anguish, grudgingly, rhythmic, grated, threadbare, petulant, philosophy, reliable, acrid, unspeakable, remorseless, revulsion, unwittingly

Sentence Composing

  • Expand
  • Combine
  • Unscramble
  • Text Connections
  • Respond Together

L.5.1.a, L.5.1.b, L.5.1.c, L.5.1.d, L.5.2.a, L.5.2.b, L.5.3, L.5.3.a, L.5.6, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.2, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.10

36 – 40: Culminating Task

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, SL.5.1.c, SL.5.3, SL.5.4, W.5.1, W.5.1.a, W.5.1.b, W.5.5

Unit 3: Look How Far I’ve Come

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41 – 45: Culminating Task

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

L.5.2, L.5.2.d, L.5.2.e, L.5.3.a, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.b, W.5.3.a, W.5.3.b, W.5.3.c, W.5.3.d, W.5.3.e, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.10