Quarter 4
Fifth Grade Focus: Reading for Literary Experience- Author study
What question do we ask ourselves?
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How can learning about an author’s live help me when I
read and write?
Why is an author’s choice of words important?
How will knowing techniques used by the authors help me
understand the story better?
What words do we need to know to master
the objectives?
events
experiences
theme
What do we need to know and be able to do?
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We need to be able to identify how author’s experiences
influence their writing.
We need to be able to distinguish between events and
experiences.
We need to be able to identify and explain a similar theme
in more than one text.
We need to be able to make self to text, text to text and text
to world connections.
reflect
influence
tone
What resources will we use?
Poetry by Langston Hughes
How will we master the objectives?
We will make connections with the authors and ourselves.
We will ask questions to help us understand the text.
We will use context clues to help increase our comprehension.
We will read and discuss the text to clarify meaning and deepen
understanding.
Books by Yoshiko Uchida
Books by Mildred D. Taylor
Book by Gary Soto