Grade 5 Scope and Sequence

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Assessment Opportunities

Area	Timing	Strategy
Word Study Assessments	Every 5 days during Shared Reading	% correct
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: Grade 5: Speaking and Listening (Group) Rubric Grade 5: Speaking and Listening (Individual) Rubric
Content Knowledge, Literacy Knowledge, and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas	At the end of each module during ELA	Culminating Task Rubrics: Module 1: Grade 5: Compare/Contrast Cells Research Project Rubric Module 2: Grade 5: Civil Rights Research Paper Rubric Module 3: Grade 5: Doing What’s Right Rubric Module 4: Grade 5: Book Advertisement Rubric Module 4: Grade 5: Reading and Writing Identity Rubric

Shared Reading

Module 1

Unit 1: Self-Discovery

Lesson Range and Anchor Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Text	Vocabulary and Word Study	Check for Understanding	Standards 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 Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards 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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

Lesson Range and Type

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Vocabulary

Grammar

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Standards Addressed

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

Lesson Range and Type

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Vocabulary

Grammar

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Standards Addressed

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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	The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963	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

Lesson Range and Type

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Vocabulary

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Standards Addressed

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

The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

Lesson Range and Type

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Vocabulary

Grammar

Check for Understanding

Standards Addressed

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

Respond Together

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

Unit 2: The Underground Railroad

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

Lesson Range and Type

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Grammar

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Standards Addressed

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

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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	Bud, Not Buddy	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

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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

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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

Bud, Not Buddy

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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

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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
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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

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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	Walk Two Moons; Animal Cells and Life Processes; Plant Cells and Life Processes; Keep On!; Rats Around Us; Messenger, Messenger; Hoops; The Boy Who Loved Words; Volcano; Oceans; The Sun; The Westing Game; The Flu of 1918; The Wright Brothers; The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963; Bud, Not Buddy; How Does a Waterfall Become Electricity?; Ice to Steam; Poetry: The Grackle, Pigeon, Something Told the Wild Geese; Poetry: Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue, The Earth is a Living Thing; Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky; A Single Shard; The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg; Half and Half; The Porcupine Year; Tuck Everlasting	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

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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

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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

Walk Two Moons; Animal Cells and Life Processes; Plant Cells and Life Processes; Keep On!; Rats Around Us; Messenger, Messenger; Hoops; The Boy Who Loved Words; Volcano; Oceans; The Sun; The Westing Game; The Flu of 1918; The Wright Brothers; The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963; Bud, Not Buddy; How Does a Waterfall Become Electricity?; Ice to Steam; Poetry: The Grackle, Pigeon, Something Told the Wild Geese; Poetry: Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue, The Earth is a Living Thing; Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky; A Single Shard; The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg; Half and Half; The Porcupine Year; Tuck Everlasting

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

Lesson Range and Type	Anchor Texts	Vocabulary	Grammar	Check for Understanding	Standards Addressed
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