FIFTH GRADE THIRD NINE WEEKS – LISD Curriculum Overview
All LISD Curriculum is written by LISD teachers under the guidance of LISD Curriculum Personnel.
All LISD Curriculum is developed based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for each grade level.
The TEKS are located on the TEA website(http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148&menu_id=720&menu_id2=785).
Across All Content Area Literacy Learning Goals:
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS
 Analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository and persuasive texts
 Understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents
 Apply metacognitive reading strategies to comprehend a variety of texts (predictions, ask relevant questions,
purpose, monitor comprehension, summarize, etc.)
 Plan, draft, revise, edit and publish expository writing
 Write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information
 Write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience for specific purposes
 Generate research plan, formulate open-ended research questions, gather resources, follow a plan to collect and
record information about the topic and synthesize the research into a presentation, record bibliographic information
on sources; paraphrase and synthesize information
LEARNING SKILLS
 Listen, share and take turns in a group
 Follow, restate, and give instructions with a short related sequence of actions
 Understand and use correct conventions when speaking and writing
 Participate in class discussions by posing and answering questions
Reading Language Arts
Unit 3: Compromise and Change
Genre Focus: Persuasive/Poetry/Drama
BIG IDEAS:
PROCESS (Continued All Year)
READING WORKSHOP
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Read aloud grade-level appropriate text with fluency and
comprehension
Apply reading strategies with greater depth in more complex text to
become self-directed, critical readers
Make connections and infer while reading
Ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text
Summarize information in the text
Read independently daily for a sustained period of time and
paraphrase what was read
Use the context to build vocabulary
WRITING WORKSHOP:
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Write on a daily basis
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Plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish a variety of genres
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Understand and apply advanced orthographic (spelling) patterns and
rules when writing
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Understand and use the conventions of academic language when
speaking and writing
Social Studies
Unit 3: Manifest Destiny
BIG IDEAS:
PROCESS (continued all year):
 Use critical thinking skills to organize and use information
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acquired from a variety of valid sources to demonstrate
understanding of United States history.
Use social studies vocabulary correctly.
Use problem-solving skills
CONTENT
EXPANSION AND GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES/
MANIFEST DESTINY:
Growth and Expansion of US:
 describe the causes and effects of the War of 1812
 identify the significance of events associated with
expansion ( the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark
Expedition, & Manifest Destiny)
 identify reasons people moved west
 identify the challenges of American Indian groups
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The 19 Century Developments in the United States
Industrial Economy/Urban Development
 identify and explain how changes resulting from the
Industrial Revolution led to conflict among US sections
CONTENT
Reading
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Understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about how an
author’s sensory language creates imagery in literary text
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Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the
structure and elements of poetry and drama
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Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the
structure and elements of expository and persuasive texts
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Analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together
Language Arts
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Write responses to literary or expository texts
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Write expository and persuasive texts
 evaluate the effects of supply and demand on business,
industry and agriculture including the plantation system
 scientific accomplishments in medicine, communication,
and transportation
Social Changes – American Progress
 identify the causes of the Civil War including sectionalism,
states' rights, and slavery
 identify the effects of the Civil War including
Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
 Urbanization, industrialization, mechanization
 Challenges, opportunities, contributions – American Indians
and immigrants
Mathematics
Science
Generate Multiple Solutions
for Whole and Positive Number Operations
Unit 5: Understanding Expressions and Equations
Earth and Space
TEKS:
Algebra: 4BCDEF Geometry/Measurement:
8ABC Process: 1ABCDEFG
Big Ideas:
Content:
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Apply an understanding of Base-10 relationships to develop
various strategies/methods for whole and positive rational number
operations.
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Demonstrate the ability to determine efficient strategies and
methods to solve problems accurately.
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Analyze, create, and extend patterns and relationships to select
strategies and formulas to solve problems.
Process (continued all year):
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Apply, represent, and communicate mathematical thinking to
solve real-world problems.
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Analyze mathematical relationships to make connections, develop
strategies, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments.
Analyze Geometric Attributes and Solve Problems
Involving Measurement
Unit 6: Geometric Figures and Measurement
TEKS: Algebra: 4GH Geo/Measure: 5, 6AB, 7
Process: 1ABCDEFG
Big Ideas:
Content:
 Demonstrate that Earth rotates on its axis once
approximately every 24 hours causing the
day/night cycle and the apparent movement of
the Sun across the sky (8C)
 Identify and compare the physical characteristics
of the Sun, Earth, and Moon (8D)
Unit 12: Water Cycle
Content:
 Explain how the Sun and the ocean interact in
the water cycle.
Unit 13: Water Cycle
Content:
 Differentiate between weather and climate (8A)
 Use weather instruments to collect information
about weather and use weather information to
discuss climates in our local area. (4A)
 Compare our local weather and climate to other
area's weather and climate (3.8A)
Unit 14: Cycles and Interactions
Content:
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Identify, analyze, and classify geometric attributes to create
generalizations and solve problems.
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Understand and apply relationships in measurement to select
units, strategies, formulas, and tools to solve problems.
Process (continued all year):
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Apply, represent, and communicate mathematical thinking to
solve real-world problems.
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Analyze mathematical relationships to make connections, develop
strategies, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments.
Generate Multiple Solutions for Whole & Positive
Rational Numbers Operations
Unit 7: Data Analysis
TEKS:
Unit 11: Sun-Earth-Moon
Data: 9ABC, LS_5.2
Process:
1ABCDEFG
Big Ideas:
Content:
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Collect, organize, display, and interpret data to make it useful for
solving problems.
Process (continued all year):
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Apply, represent, and communicate mathematical thinking to
solve real-world problems.
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Analyze mathematical relationships to make connections, develop
strategies, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments.
Content:
 Observe the way organisms live and survive in
their ecosystem by interacting with the living
elements (9A)
 Identify the significance of the carbon dioxideoxygen cycle to the survival of plants and animals
(9D)
 Describe the flow of energy derived from the Sun,
used by producers to create their own food, and
transferred through a food chain and food web to
consumers and decomposers (9B)
Organisms and Environments
Unit 15: Animal and Plant Characteristics
Content:
 Compare the structures and functions of different
species that help them live and survive such as
hooves on prairie animals, webbed feet in
aquatic animals, or waxy coating on cactus
plants (10 A)
 Differentiate between inherited traits of plants
and animals such as spines on a cactus or
shape of beak and learned behaviors such as an
animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle
(10B)
 Describe the differences between complete and
incomplete metamorphosis of insects. (10C)
Process (Continued All Year):
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Follow safe and ethical practices in their work in
accordance with accepted science standards
Address concepts and vocabulary in context
Carefully implement studies of the natural world
that can be tested by others
Clearly communicate valid oral and written
results
Use critical thinking and problem solving to make
decisions
Use tools and models to investigate the natural
world