TIME:  Quarter 3, 1/29 - 4/12

 Quarter Breakdown

UNIT TOPIC:

Natural Disasters

FOCUS:

• Know and use vocabulary related to the topic/theme in speaking and writing

• Read-write-speak-and listen to learn about the topic

• Develop literacy skills

Building Vocabulary and Knowledge of the World:

• Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general as well as in oartucular sentences to gain knowledge of a topic and build vocabulary
• Determine meaning sof words and phrases related to the theme/topic
• Use precise words to express actions, emotions, and states when speaking or writing about a topic.
• Speak about a topic or text using facts, details, ideas

Fluency:

• Read texts multiple times to read with word accuracy, aproproiate rate, and expression
• Reread to se contect for self-corecing and to suppport understanding of text

Comprehension/Science of Reading Comprehension Strategies:

•  Activate and use prior knowledge about the overall sturcture of informational texts such as sequence, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution to support comprehension.
• Visualize a story or details in an informational text based on connections to your own life, other texts, or things you know about the topic/theme
• Summarize by discussing characters, setting and major events or key details
• Monitor comprehension by explaining how specific illustrations contribute to the understanding of the text
• Make inferences to to determine a theme or central idea

Computer Science and Digital Fluency:

• Type using a keyboard with proper form
• Choose and use digital tools to communicate and collaborate with others (eg. shared slides and docs, email)
• Conduct an onine search using multi-criteria to find relevant information about a topic (e.g. search inventors of tecnology for elementary students instead of searching for inventors)
• Use a variety of digital tools to create and revise artifacts (e.g. slideshows, drawings, picture collages, etc. for narrative writing)
• Notice similarities in the features of differerent programs or apps
• Describe how digital informatlon (eg. posts) is permanent and how posted information can affect a person's life, even in the future
• Identify and describe online actions that could be harmful and what to do if these actions are witnessed (e.g. cyberbullying)

STANDARDS

Reading Foundational Skills Codes: 5RF3

Reading Codes: 5R2, 5R3, 5R5,  5R7, 5R9, 

Speaking and Listening Codes: 5SL4, 5SL6

Language Codes: 5L1, 5L6

Computer Science and Digital Fluency Codes: 4-6.DL.1-7

READ ALOUDS AND MEDIA FOR TEXT SET:

Module 3 

• Hurricane Poem
• Hurricanes: The Science Behind Killer Storms (NF)
• Retell/Summarize
• Author's Craft
• Notice & Note: Numbers and Statistics
• Central Idea
• Which is Worse: Hurricane or Tornado
• Between The Glacier and the Sea- The Alaska Earthquake Multimedia video HMHed (NF)
• I Survived: Hurricane Katrina Novel OR Night of The Twisters Novel (F)

 Optional Read Alouds

STUDENT-READ TEXT OPTIONS FOR TEXT SET:

Folder for Resources

Student Read Texts

1. Earthquakes Facts for Kids (website) 
2. The Science of Earthquakes (website) 
3. Earthquakes  (text) 
4. Terrifying Tsunamis (text) 
5. Tsunami Facts (website) 
6. Hurricanes: Natures Wildest Storms (text) 
7. Hurricanes (website) 
8. Hurricanes Facts (website)  
9. Tornado (text) 
10. Tornados (website)  
11. Tornado Facts (website)

•  Apply phonics and decoding skills
•  Use syllabication patterns to decode
•  Use morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

STANDARDS

Reading Foundational Skills Codes: 5RF3

Writing about Reading:

• Use text evidence to support writing about reading – analysis, reflection, and research
• Gather information from multiple sources (including paired passages), take notes avoiding plagiarism, and organize notes into categories about the research topic
• Provide a list of sources for research

Writing Process:

Informational Writing

• Speak about topic using topic vocabulary and formal English before writing
• Identify topic
• Use details/facts to develop the topic
• Use transitional words and phrases
• Provide a conclusion
• Use appropriate grammar and conventions

Paired Passage Informational Essay

Write:

• Paired Passage Writing: Respond to a prompt based on paired passages about natural disasters (e.g. Compare and contrast the impacts of two different types of natural disasters; compare and contrast how characters in two different texts respond to a natural disaster)

Writing Process:

• Pre-writing
• Draft
• Revise
• Edit
• Publish
• Share

STANDARDS

Writing Codes: 5W2, 5W4, 5W5, 5W7

Speaking and Listening Codes: 5SL1, 5SL2, 5SL4, 5SL6

Language Codes: 5L3

READING

Reading Anchor Charts

Module 3 Know It Show It

Module 3 Answer Key

WRITING

Expository Writer's Notebook

Writing Anchor Charts

Writing Rubrics

Grade 5 Assessment Calendar

READING Assessments (When applicable)

Constructed Response Rubric

Hurricanes: The Science Behind Killer Storms QUIZ

Module 3 Week 2 Assessment

Module 3 Week 3 Assessment