Grade 5 Journeys Pacing Guide
Date
Weekly Story
Week 1
Novel Study: Frindle
Spelling
Target Skill Target Strategy Grammar
Assessment
Comments
Fountess and Pinnell, DIBELS
Screening, MAP Testing
Week 2
Continue Assessments
Week 3
Lesson 1“A Package for Mrs.
Jewls”from wayside school is
falling down Genre: Humorous
Fiction
Short Vowels
Story Structure
Summarize
Verbs
Weekly Test Selection
Comprehension , Vocab.,
Grammar
Continue to form
Guided Reading Groups
Week 4
Lesson 2"A Royal Mystery"
Genere:Play
long a & long e
Theme
Question
Kinds of
sentences
Weekly Test Selection
Comprehension , Vocab.,
Grammar
Begin Guided Reading
Groups
Week 5
Lesson 3 “Off & Running”
Genre: Fairytale
Long i & Long o
Compare & Contrast
Infer/ Predict
Compound
Sentences
Vocab., Grammar, Skills in
Context
Monitor/Clarity
Common &
Proper Nouns
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension Focus
Skill Robust Vocab grammar
Visualize
Singular and
Plural Nouns
Weekly Test Selection
Comprehension , Vocab.,
Grammar
Week 6
Week 7
Lesson 4
“Double Dutch:A Celebration
of Jump Rope, Rhyme, & Vowel Sounds:/oo/,yoo Sequence of events
sisterhood”Genre: Narrative
Nonfiction
Lesson 5 "Elisa's Diary"
Genre:Realistic Fiction
Vowel Sounds /ou/ /o/
/oi/
Theme
Story Structure, Story Structure, Question,
Theme, Compare &
Infer/Predict,
Contrast, Sequence,
Monitor/Clarity,
Theme
Visualize
Unit 1 Test
Pull Materials from
lesson 26 if needed
Verbs
Weekly Test Selection
Comprehension , Vocab.,
Grammar, ORF
End of Quarter 1
Visualize
Direct and
Indirect Objects
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Author's Purpose
Analyze/Evaluate
Conjuctions
Vocab., Grammar, Skills in
Context
Compound Words
Conclusions and
Generalizations
Infer/ Predict
Complex
Sentences
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Final Schwa + /r/
Sounds
Main Idea & Details
Monitor/Clarify
Direct Quotes &
Interjections
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Cause and Effect,
Understanding
Characters, Author's
Purpose, Conclusions
& Generalizations,
Main Idea & Details
Question, Visualize,
Analyze/Evaluate,
Infer/Predict,
Monitor/Clarify
Week 8
Review Week Unit 1
Week 9
Lesson 6
“Quest for the Tree Kangaroo”
Vowel + /r/ Sounds
Cause and Effect
Question
Week 10
Lesson 7 “Old Yeller”
More Vowel + /r/
Sounds
Understanding
Characters
Week 11
Lesson 8 "Everglades Forever:
Restoring America's Great
Wetland"
Homophones
Week 12
Lesson 9 "Storm Warriors"
Week 13
Lesson 10 “Cougars”
Week 14
Review Week Unit 2
Unit 2 Test
Pull Materials from
lesson 27 if needed
Week 15
Lesson 11
“Dangerous Crossing”
VCCV Pattern
Cause & Effect
Visualize
Common &
Proper Nouns
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 16
Lesson 12
“Can't You Make Them
Behave, King George”
VCV Pattern
Fact & Opinion
Question
Verb Tenses
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 17
Lesson 13 “They Called Her
Molly Pitcher”
VCCV Pattern
Conclusions &
Generalizations
Analyze/Evaluate
Week 18
Lesson 14 “'James Fotten' From
Now is Your Time”
VV Pattern
Sequence of Events
Summarize
Commas &
Semicolons
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 19
Lesson 15 “We Were There,
Too!”
Final Schwa + /l/
Sounds
Compare & Contrast
Monitor/Clarify
Transitions
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar, ORF,
optional MAP testing
End of Quarter 2
DIBELS/F&P
Unit 3 Test
Pull Materials from
lesson 28 if needed
Regular and
Vocabulary, Grammar, Skills in
Irregular Verbs
Context
Cause & Effect, Fact &
Opinion, Conclusions &
Visualize, Questions,
Generalizations,
Analyze/Evaluate,
Sequence of Events, Summarize, Monitor/Clarify
Compare & Contrast
Week 20
Review Week 3
Week 21
Lesson 16 “Lunch Money”
Words with -ed or -ing
Author's Purpose
Monitor/Clarity
Adjectives
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 22
Lesson 17 "'LAFF' from Best
Shorts
More Words with -ed or ing
Story Structure
Infer/Predict
Adverbs
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 23
Lesson 18 "'The Dog
Newspaper' from Five Pages a
Day"
Changing Final y to i
Fact & Opinion
Analyze/Evaluate
Prepositions and
Prepositional
Phrases
Vocabulary, Grammar, Skills in
Context
Week 24
Lesson 19 "Darnell Rock
Reporting"
Suffixes: -ful, -ly, -ness, less, -ment
Author's Purpose
Summarize
More Kinds of
Pronouns
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Week 25
Lesson 20 "The Black Stallion"
Words from Other
Languages
Story Structure
Question
Proper Mechanics
and Writing Titles
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Author's Purpose, Sotry
Structure, Fact &
Opinion, Author's
Purpose, Story
Structure
Monitor/Clarify,
Infer/Predict,
Analyze/Evaluate,
Summarize, Question
Week 26
Review Week Unit 4
Week 27
Lesson 21 "Tucket's Travels"
Week 28
Lesson 22 "The Birchbark
House"
Final /ij/, /iv/, /is/
Week 29
Lesson 23 "Vaqueros:
America's First Cowboys
Week 30
Lesson 24 " Rachel's Journal:
The Sotry of a Pioneer Girl"
Unit 4 Test
Visualize
Verbs "be" and
"have"
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Theme
Infer/Predict
Perfect Tenses
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Unstressed Syllables
Text and Graphic
Features
Summarize
Easily Confused
Verbs
Vocabulary, Grammar, ORF,
Skills in Context
Prefixes: in-, un-, dis-,
mis-
Cause and Effect
Analyze/Evaluate
Making
Comparisons
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Final /n/, or n/, /ch, r/, /zh,
Sequence of Events
r/
Pull Materials from
lesson 29 if needed
End of Quarter 3
Week 31
Week 32
Lesson 25-"Lewis and Clark"
Review Week Unit 5
Suffix -ion
Main Idea & Details
Monitor/Clarify
Sequence of Events,
Theme, Text and
Graphic Features,
Cause and Effect, Main
Idea & Details
Visualize, Infer/Predict,
Summarize,
Analyze/Evaluate,
Monitor/Clarify
Contractions
Weekly Test
Selection Comprehension,
Vocabulary, Grammar
Unit 5 Test
Pull Materials from
lesson 30 if needed
Cornerstone, ORF
NeSA, MAP Testing,
DIBELS / F & P
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35
Novel Study-Book TBD