Unit Title: Compare and Contrast
Grade 5
Time 6 weeks
Language Arts Florida Standards: LAFS.5.RL.1.3; LAFS.5.RI.1.3; LAFS.5.W.3.9; LAFS.5.L.3.4
LAFS Unpacked
Understand (Level 3)
Know (Level 2)
Be able to do (Level 4)
-Understand characters, settings, and events in a gradeappropriate story or drama.
-Use details that support the description of a character,
setting, or event in a grade-appropriate story or drama.
-Understand how an author uses reasons and evidence to
support specific points in a text.
-Use specific details from a text to compare and contrast
two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or
drama (5.RL.1.3).
-Explain how people, events, ideas, or concepts are
connected in a historical, scientific, or technical text
(5.RI.1.3)
-Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or
events in my writing (5.W.3.9a).
-Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to
support specific points in a text (5.W.3.9b).
Assessments
Assessments
Assessments
Compare/contrast pre-test
Vocabulary graphic organizer
Vocabulary quiz
Speaking/listening checklist
Fluency check/sprint
Informal assessments (rubrics, checklists etc.)
Graphic organizers
Compare/contrast post-test
Compare/contrast non-fiction articles
Cold read
Narrative, expository and/or opinion writing
Vocabulary & Terms:
Vocabulary & terms
Compare, concept, contrast, drama, event, historical, idea,
individual, interaction, relationship, scientific, setting, support,
technical
Known terms:
Character, detail, information, story, text
Scale Score
4
3
Compare and Contrast
In above grade-level text, I can:
A. Use specific details from a text to compare and
contrast two or more characters, settings, or events
in a story or drama.
B. Explain how people, events, ideas, or concepts are
connected in a historical, scientific, or technical text.
I can:
A. Use specific details from a text to compare and
contrast two or more characters, settings, or events
in a story or drama (5.RL.1.3).
B. Explain how people, events, ideas, or concepts are
connected in a historical, scientific, or technical text
(5.RI.1.3)
Scale Score
Compare and Contrast Writing
4
Readers can:
A. Compare and contrast two or more characters,
settings, or events by analyzing my writing.
B. Explain how the writer uses reasons and evidence to
support specific points in the text.
3
I can:
A. Compare and contrast two or more characters,
settings, or events in my writing (5.W.3.9a).
B. Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to
support specific points in a text (5.W.3.9b).
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Unit Title: Compare and Contrast
Time 6 weeks
2
I can recognize or recall:
A. Characters, settings, and events in a gradeappropriate story or drama.
B. Details that support the description of a character,
setting, or event in a grade-appropriate story or
drama
2
I can recognize or recall:
A. Specific vocabulary.
B. How an author uses reasons and evidence to support
specific points in a text.
1
With teacher help, I can recognize or recall:
A. Characters, settings, and events in a gradeappropriate story or drama.
B. Details that support the description of a character,
setting, or event in a grade-appropriate story or
drama
1
With teacher help, I can recognize or recall:
A. Specific vocabulary.
B. How an author uses reasons and evidence to support
specific points in a text.
Writing applications
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Grade 5
Explanatory/informative
persuasive/argumentative
research
functional (letters, directions,
Summary:
Describe
Relate
Compare
Sequence
Associate
Predict
Analyze Apply
Create/invent
Argue
Define
Solve
Reading for information & literary
analysis
Main idea
Supportive details
Sequential order relationships
Cause/effect problemsolution/generalizations/conclusions
Interpret instructions
Understand/use words, phrases, symbols
Understand/use maps, charts, and graphs
Author’s purpose/techniques
Literary analysis
Instruction
Speaking
Listening
Language
Lead & participate in
discussion
Read/interpret text
Create/present speeches
Debate
Interact w/ partners/grps
Reciprocal teaching
Ask relevant questions
Use media and other visual
resources
Summarize/paraphrase
what was heard, read,
viewed
Listen and respond to
questions and comments
Restate and carry out oral
instructions
ID and manage barriers to
listening
Take notes
(interwoven throughout)
Grammar and usage
Conventions
How language functions in different
contexts
Meaning of unknown words and
phrases
Word relationships and nuances in
meaning
Academic and domain-specific
vocabulary
Strategies Addressing Content (how will you help students):
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Unit Title: Compare and Contrast
Short texts (3-5, Literature & Informational)
> various non-fiction articles
> Fusion Science text
> McGraw Hill Social Studies text
>poetry
Extended Text (Literature or Informational)
>Rules by Cynthia Lord
>Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord
Routine Writing (list types)
> Compare and Contrast (point by point, subject by subject, comparisons followed by
contrasts)
Writing analyses (arguments, inform, explain)
> Explanatory writing
Grade 5
Time 6 weeks
DQ2
Process- Students engage in interactions with other students, students ask and answer
questions of other students (turn and talk)
Elaborate –Students draw conclusions that were not explicitly taught, students ask and
answer questions that require inference skills
Record- record and represent their understanding of critical content in linguistic and nonlinguistic (pictures) ways
Reflect- examine level of understanding and identify areas where they are clear and/or
confused
DQ3
ID Similarities and differences- Students describe how elements are similar and different
and what new information they have learned as a result of their comparison.
Examine Errors – students can look at what they have learned and find their errors in their
reasoning
DQ4
Generate hypotheses – problem solving, decision making, investigating, inquiring (make a
guess, act, draw conclusions, compare to original thinking/guess)
**subject to change per teacher discretion
Scale Score
Compare and Contrast
4
In above grade-level text, I can:
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Unit Title: Compare and Contrast
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2
1
Time 6 weeks
A. Use specific details from a text to compare and contrast two or more characters,
settings, or events in a story or drama.
B. Explain how people, events, ideas, or concepts are connected in a historical,
scientific, or technical text.
I can:
A. Use specific details from a text to compare and contrast two or more characters,
settings, or events in a story or drama (5.RL.1.3).
B. Explain how people, events, ideas, or concepts are connected in a historical,
scientific, or technical text (5.RI.1.3)
I can recognize or recall:
A. Characters, settings, and events in a grade-appropriate story or drama.
B. Details that support the description of a character, setting, or event in a gradeappropriate story or drama
With teacher help, I can recognize or recall:
A. Characters, settings, and events in a grade-appropriate story or drama.
B. Details that support the description of a character, setting, or event in a gradeappropriate story or drama
Scale Score
4
Grade 5
Compare and Contrast Writing
Readers can:
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2
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Grade 5
Time 6 weeks
A. Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events by analyzing my
writing.
B. Explain how the writer uses reasons and evidence to support specific points in the
text.
I can:
A. Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in my writing
(5.W.3.9a).
B. Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support specific points in a
text (5.W.3.9b).
I can recognize or recall:
A. Specific vocabulary.
B. How an author uses reasons and evidence to support specific points in a text.
With teacher help, I can recognize or recall:
A. Specific vocabulary.
B. How an author uses reasons and evidence to support specific points in a text.
Scale
2.0
3.0
4.0
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Unit Title: Compare and Contrast
Grade 5
Time 6 weeks
Compare and Contrast
Scores
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