Grade 5

Teachers - Kristin, Ted,  Ana

 

Possible Units of Study

 

Reading
Reading Comprehension Skills:
Monitoring for Meaning
Questioning
Inferring
Synthesizing
Determining Importance
Imaging
Using Prior Knowledge/Schema

Other Focus Points:
Main Idea/Supporting Details
Cause and Effect
Context Clues
Compare and Contrast

Literature Circles/Book Clubs

 

Writing
Essay Writing
Memoir
Poetry
Legends
Playwriting
Feature Articles
Grammar, Spelling, and Vocabulary
 

Social Studies
From Colony to Country
What does it mean to be an American?
What are the rights and responsibilities of Americans?
How did the American Revolution shape our country's values, laws, and government?
The Election Process

Lewis and Clark/Westward Expansion
Why did people journey West?
What happens when two cultures meet?
How does the concept of land ownership differ between the Native Americans and the
Westward-moving settlers?

Immigration: Past and Present
Why do immigrants journey to our country?
How does immigration of the past connect with the current issues of immigration today?

 

 

Math Investigations in Number, Data and Space

Grade 5 Sequence of Units and Strands
Number Puzzles and Multiple Towers
Number and Operation: Multiplication & Division 1

 

Prisms & Pyramids
3-D Geometry and Measurement

 

Thousands of Miles, Thousands of Seats
Number and Operations: Addition , Subtraction, and The Number System

 

What’s that Portion
Number and Operations: Rational Number

 

Measuring Polygons
2-D Geometry and Measurement

 

Decimals on Grids and Number Lines
Number and Operations: Rational Number

 

NYS Math Assessment
How Many People? How Many Teams?
Number and Operations: Multiplication and Division 2

 

Growth Patterns
Number and Operations: Patterns, Functions, and Change

 

How Long Can You Stand on One Foot?
Data Analysis and Probability