Language Arts Yearly Curriculum Outline Grade: 5 Teacher: Noor Ali Unit Title Back to School Theme 1: Identity

Awareness - What are our stories? * Students discover their own unique personalities as they gain a strong foundation for developing healthy relationships. *Visualization, Questioning, Connections, Conflict, Flashback, Figurative language, Strong Sentences, Poetry, Nouns. *Writing: Understanding Narrative, Expository & Persuasive Writing. Descriptive segments. Main ideas in Expository writing. Spelling/Vocabulary Lists 1 5 Letter Writing to Pen pals in New Jersey Theme 1 Assessments Spelling /Vocabulary List 6 Theme 2: Perspective Taking - What does freedom mean to different people? *Students gain empathy as they become aware that other points of view are valid and should be respected. *Predict, Infer, Questioning, Summarize, Monitor and Clarify, Symbolism, Verbs, and Poetry. *Writing: elaborative detail, and making an advertisement, Narrative beginnings & endings, diagrams & labels in expository writings. Spelling/Vocabulary Lists 7 11 Theme 2 Assessments *Spelling /Vocabulary List 12 Theme 3: Conflict Resolution - What choices do we have in a conflict? *Students learn new strategies for resolving differences and getting along with others. *Take Perspectives, Summarize, Follow Directions, Connections, Adjectives, Poetry. *Writing: Making a list, persuasive letter, expository research, building suspense in narrative writing, Powerful details, Critical language in persuasive writing, main event in narrative writing. Spelling/Vocabulary Lists 13 17 Literature Circle I Theme 3 Assessments *Spelling /Vocabulary List 18 Unit Length September (week 1) September-October (weeks 2-6)

October (week 7 ) October November (weeks 8 13)

December (week 14) December - January (weeks 15 - 18)

January (week 19) January February (weeks 20 24)

Poetry Coffeehouse Day

Theme 4: Social Awareness - What can we each do to make a better world? *Students learn to foster relationships and understand the pitfalls of stereotyping and prejudice. *Monitor and Clarify, Connections, Authors Purpose, Pronouns, Adverbs, Poetry. *Writing: Compare & Contrast, persuasive & expository writing, describing a critical setting. Spelling /Vocabulary Lists 19 23 Theme 4 Assessments *Adverbs, Spelling/Vocabulary List 24

March (week 25) March April (weeks 26 30)

Author Study
Theme 5: Friendship - What are the barriers to friendship? How can we overcome them? *Students learn about the nature of relationships with family and friends and understand the importance of helping and caring for others. *Questioning, Connections, Perspectives, Visualize, Adverbs. *Writing: Persuasive, Narrative, & Expository Pieces. Spelling /Vocabulary Lists 25 29 Theme 5 Assessments *Spelling /Vocabulary List 30 Writing: End of year process pieces. Literature Circle II

April (week 31) May - June (weeks 32 - 37)

May 29th Authors Breakfast