Elementary Gifted
Curriculum Pacing Guide
Grade: 5
Theme: Liberty
Quarter 1
READING
Springboard Grade 6
Unit 1: Stories of Change
L.5.6 Vocabulary
2.1 Preview: Open
Assessment
W.5.5 Develop writing
1.2 Point of View
RI.5.19 Read and
comprehend complex
literature
1.3 Narrative: characters,
setting, conflict
W.5.3 Defining Narratives
1.4 Sequences events
W.5.5 Analyze structure of
text
1.5 Personal narrative:
Cause and effect
RI.5.1 Cite evidence
1.6 Characterization
RI.5.3 Analyze
relationships
1.7 Relationships, similes
W.5.3 Create a narrative
1.8, 1.9, 1.10 Prewriting and
VOCABULARY
Sadlier-Oxford
Vocab.
Workshop
Pretest
Units 1-4 &
Review and
posttest
WRITING
Narrative
Simple Solutions
Grammar
MATH
POD (Problem of the day
to write in math
notebook?
Springboard Grade 6
Writing Journals Unit 1: Number Concepts
Key terms and essential
questions, p. 1
Essential
Vocabulary
Getting ready: use as
Questions:
Wall:
pretest
Is liberty and
collaboration
justice attainable Activity 1
narrative
5.NS.B3 Add, subtract,
for all?
similes
How do personal multiply, and divide
metaphors
experiences shape decimals
personification
1.1 Whole numbers &
our view of
figurative speech others?
decimals
graphic organizer
1.2 Adding & subtracting
conflict/plot
decimals
flashback
1.3 Multiplying decimals
expository
1.4 Dividing whole nbrs.
writing
1.5 Dividing decimals
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Activity 2
5.EE.A.1 Write and
SOCIAL
STUDIES
SCIENCE/STEM
Morning Talk:
Current events,
weather, quote of
the day: Use
Channel 1 and
Discovery Ed
(Weekly Global
Wrap)
Teach Scientific Design
Method; Scientific
Tools
Unit 1: Geography
globes, maps,
diagrams, latitude,
longitude,
landforms, climate
NASA: Ignite activity:
3-2-1 Puff!
Maintain Science Folder,
record-keeping for
experiments; science
vocabulary
Science: Harcourt
School Publishers;
perform experiments
Landform Project: from text focusing on
Create 3-D display scientific method
to scale or a board
game: connect to
Simple Solutions
social economic
Science
factors and changes
Discovery Ed:
Harcourt Brace
*Scientific Method
textbook
*Scientific Method:
thinking like a scientist
1
revising
Embedded Assessment
1.11 Preparing to write a
short story
RL.5.3 Compare/contrast
character
1.12 Graphic organizer
W.5.3 Develop events in
narrative
1.13 Plot diagrams
W.5.5 Sensory details
1.14 Similes, metaphors,
personification
RI.5.1 Quote accurately
1.15 Expository story
RI.5.3 Analyze characters,
setting, events
1.16 Develop story: graphic
organizer
RL.5.2 Central theme
1.17 Story conclusion
RI.5.3 Analyze events
1.18 Flashback
W.5.5 Writing process
1.19 Write short story
Embedded Assessment
Literature Club
Read Maniac Magee by
Jerry Spinelli:
*story elements
*character study
*descriptive language
*Comprehension skills of
main idea
*inference
evaluate numerical
expressions involving
whole-number
exponents.
2.1 Prime factorization
2.2 Exponents
Practice
Activity 3
5.NS.B.4 Find the
greatest common factor
of two whole numbers
3.1 GCF
3.2 LCM
Embedded Assessment #2
Activity 4
5.NS.C.7 Understand
ordering and absolute
value of rational
numbers.
4.1 Meaning of Factors
4.2 Comparing & ordering
fractions
4.3 Mixed numbers
4.4 Comparing & ordering
mixed numbers
Practice
Activity 5
5.NS.A.1 Interpret and
compute quotients of
fractions and solve word
problems
5.1 Multiplying by
fractions
5.2 Multiplying mixed
numbers
Practice
Discovery Ed:
*Landform Maps
*Geographical
Physical Features
*Geography People
& Environment
Brain Pop:
*Geography
Begin Unit 2:
Native Americans
(see second quarter
for details)
*What is Scientific
Investigation?
Brain Pop
*Scientific Method
Activity: Identify
science tools and
describe use of each;
assessment
Begin Unit on Planets:
(see second quarter for
details)
2
*prediction
*cause/effect
*social issues of bullying,
homelessness, racism, and
illiteracy
Introduce Reading genres:
fiction, nonfiction, fairy
tales, poetry
Activity 6
5.NS.C.7 Understand
ordering and absolute
value of rational nbrs.
6.1 Divide by fractions
6.2 Divide mixed numbers
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Unit 2
Key Terms and essential
questions p. 81
Getting ready: use as
pretest
Activity 7
5.NS.C.5 Understand
that positive and
negative numbers are
used together to describe
quantities
5.NS.C.6 Understand a
rational number as a
point on the number line
7.1 Integers & number
line
7.2 Comparing & ordering
integers
Practice
Activity 8
8.1 Using models to add
integers
8.2 Using rules to add
integers
8.3 Subtracting integers
Practice
Embedded Assessment
3
Khan Academy
Year Long Activity:
Money Management
with Davis DollarsStudents earn $ for
specific behaviors.
Students have “ATM”
card, bank book (interest
is earned), checking
account, and purchase
items at class auction.
Taxes forms are
computed.
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Elementary GT Curriculum Pacing Guide Grade: 5
Theme: Liberty
Quarter 2
READING
VOCABULARY
WRITING
Springboard Grade 6
Unit 2: The Power to Change
2.1 Preview: Embedded
Assessment
W.5.2 Write
explanatory/informational text
2.2 Internal/external forces in
text
R.L.5.10 Read and compare
texts
2.3 Expository writing
RL. 5.1 Cite textual evidence
2.4 Novel Walk Two Moons:
Graphic organizer (connection
to social studies unit on Indians)
R L.5.3 Analyze character
development
2.5 Character analysis:
compare/contrast; skimming,
scanning
RL.5.3 Analyze setting
2.6 Plot and subplot: inference,
prediction
RL.5.3 Collaborative
discussions
Vocabulary
Word Wall:
skim
scan
analyze
internal force
external force
expository writing
plot and subplot
inference
Expository
(related to
Soc. Studies
and
Literature)
MATH
POD (Problem of the
day to write in math
notebook?
Springboard Grade 6
Unit 2 continued
Simple
Activity 9
Solutions
5.NS.C.6 Understand a
Grammar
rational number as a
point on the number
line.
Newspaper
Personal
9.1 Integers in the
Writing
Dictionaries –to
coordinate plane
use with Literature Create a class 5.NS.C.6a Recognize
Circle; keep
opposite signs of
newsletter
notebook
numbers; number line
Begin Young 9.2 Distance & reflection
Sadlier-Oxford
in the coordinate plane
Authors’
Vocab. Units 5-8 books-develop Practice
and review
Activity 10
plot, setting,
10.1 Multiplying integers
characters
10.2 Dividing integers
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Unit 3: Expressions and
SOCIAL STUDIES
SCIENCE/STEM
Morning Talk:
Current events,
weather, quote of the
day: Use Channel 1
and Discovery Ed
(Weekly Global
Wrap)
Earth Science: solar
system
planets
asteroids
comets
phases of moon
orbit
Unit 2: Ancient
Americans
First Americans
N. American Indians
Life ways of tribes
Science: Harcourt
School Publishers
Projects: Indian
Potlatch with 5th
grades
Diorama of Indian
village (In class
collaborative project)
Activity: Phases of
the moon; materialsOreo cookies, paper
plates, glue
Harcourt Brace
textbook
WebQuest-Native
Simple Solutions
Science
Project: students
research a select
planet and create a
plan that would allow
humans to exist on
said planet
5
2.7 Write setting: complex
sentence structure
L.5.1 Analyze setting
2.8 Question text
RL.5.4 Determine meaning of
words and phrases
2.9 Diction/evidence
RL.5.1 Determine theme
2.10 Summarize
Rl.5.1 Textual evidence: quote
2.11 Make connections
within/between texts
RL.5.1 Cite textual evidence
2.12 Into Literature Club: Define
roles
SL.5.2 Interpret information in
diverse media
2.13 Literature Club discussions
W.5.3 Write narrative
Embedded Assessment
W.5.3 Write using range of
disciplines
2.14 Preview Assessment:
Expository writing
2.15 Genres
W.5.2 Write informational
texts
2.16 Explain/interpret text
W.5.2 Use precise
language/vocabulary
2.17 Drafting and collaboration
RL.5.2 Determine central idea
of text
2.18 Literary Nonfiction
RL.5.3 Cite textural evidence
Equations
Key terms and essential
questions, p. 129
Getting ready-use as
pretest
Activity 11
5.EE.A Write, read,
and evaluate numerical
expressions
11.1 Order of operations
11.2 Evaluating
algebraic expressions
11.3 Writing expressions
11.4 Properties of
operations
Practice
Activity 12
5.EE.B.5 Understand
solving an equation or
inequality as a process
12.1 Representing
situations with equations
12.2 Solutions of
equations
Embedded Assessments
Activity 13
5.EE.B.7 Solve realworld and
mathematical with
equations
13.1 Modeling & solving
addition equations
13.2 Solving addition
equations
13.3 Modeling & solving
Americans
Maintain Science
Discovery Ed:
Folder, record*American Heritage: keeping for
Native Americans
experiments using
*Trail of Tears
^Tecumseh
NASA website
Collaborative groups
select video on
Discover Ed:
specific tribes to
*Life in Our Solar
complete in-class
System
project
*Volcanoes in Our
Solar System
Begin Unit on
*Moon Phases
Exploration (see third *Earth/Moon
quarter for details)
*Solar System Planets
Students will view a
video on a specific
planet to gather
information for
project
Brain Pop
*Moon phases
*Sun
*Solar System
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2.19 Textural evidence
RL.5.1 Cite textual evidence to
support analysis of text
2.20 Making Connections
Through Research
RL.5.3 Analyze key events
2.21 Synthesizing
W.5.2 Write informational text
Embedded Assessment #2
Write expository essay
Literature Club: Walk Two
Moons: Springboard; connections
to Indians in social studies
Story elements: character study,
descriptive language,
comprehension skills of main
idea (chapter titles), inference,
prediction, cause/effect; social
issues
Main Idea
Literature Circle: keep a
notebook as we follow the steps
of lit club
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/
lewis/litf/index.html
subtraction equations
13.4 Solving subtraction
equations
Practice
Activity 14
5.EE.B.7 (continued)
14.1 Modeling & solving
multiplication equations
14.2 Solving
multiplication equations
14.3 Solving division
equations
Practice
Activity 15
5.EE.B.5 Understand
solving an equation or
inequality as a process
5.EE.B.8 Write an
inequality
15.1 Representing
situations with
inequalities 15.2 Solving
one step inequalities
Practice
Activity 16
5.EE.C.9 Use variables
to represent two
quantities in real-world
problem
16.1 Representing
relationships
16.2 Dependent &
independent variables
Practice
Embedded Assessment
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Elementary GT Curriculum Pacing Guide Grade: 5
Theme: Liberty
Quarter 3
READING
Springboard Grade 6:
Unit 3: Changing
Perspective
L.5.6 Acquire and use
appropriate words
3.1 Preview/Unpack
embedded assessment
L.5.6 Consult reference
materials
3.2 Argue and convince
RI.5.1 Cite textural
evidence
3.3 Identify claims;
paraphrase
RI.5.1 Use evidence to
support analysis
3.4 Using reasons and
evidence; debate
W.5.8 Gather relevant
information
3.5 Research: sources,
citation
RI.5.7 Integrate and
evaluate from diverse
formats
3.7 Reading graphics:
analyze
RI.5.2 Determine main
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary Word
Wall:
graphic organizer
compare
contrast
prediction
summarize
theme
textual evidence
WRITING
Persuasive Writing
MATH
POD (Problem of the
day to write in math
notebook)
SOCIAL STUDIES
Morning Talk:
Current events,
weather, quote of the
Letter Writing
day: Use Channel 1
Young Authors’
Springboard Grade 6 and Discovery Ed
Unit 4: Rations
(Weekly Global Wrap)
BooksRevising/editing, put Key terms & essential
Unit: Explorer,
in book form, include questions p. 213
Explorations, and
Getting Ready-use as
illustrations
pre-test
Economic Affects
Personal
Activity 17
Simple Solutions
Dictionaries –
Understanding Ratios Harcourt Brace
Grammar
textbook: unit 2
Literature Circle
17.1 Understanding
(keep notebook)
ratios
Discovery Ed:
17.2 Ratios in
proportional
*The Explorers:
Sadlier-Oxford
Dawning of the Age of
relationships
Vocab. Workshop
Practice
Exploration
Units 9-12 & review
*The French Explorers
18.1 Solve problems
test
18.2 Converting
between measurements Brain Pop:
using ratios
*C. Columbus
*Vikings
Practice
Activity 19
*Lewis & Clark
19.1 Understanding
19.2 Calculating unit
Project: Create
scrapbook about the
rates
19.3 Calculating rates life of a selected
SCIENCE/STEM
Ecosystems and
Change:
habitats
adaptation
symbiosis
predator/prey
succession
food webs/chains
food pyramids
mutualism
decomposers
parasitism
commensalism
Project: Build a selfcontained ecosystem;
bottle biologyterrarium
ODNR division of
wildlife
NSTS
Career Connections:
veterinarian
marine biologist
zoologist
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idea
3.8 Debate; organize and
communicate
SL.5.1 Review key ideas
and communicate
understanding
Embedded Assessment:
Research, debate
SL.5.1 Cite textual
evidence
3.9 Preview Embedded
Assessment #2: Argument
L.5.1 Engage in
collaborative discussion
3.10 Models of
argumentative letters
RI.5.5 Cite textual
evidence
3.11 Rhetorical appeals in
argumentative writing
W.6.8 Gather relevant
information from
multiple sources
3.12 Citing evidence:
direct quotation,
paraphrasing
RI.5.4 Interpret words
and phrases from text
3.13 Persuasive diction,
powerful adjectives
W.5.1 Write arguments
to support claims
3.14 Write hook and
claim
W.5.4 Produce clear and
of speed
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Activity 20
20.1 Using models
20.2 Percent, fractions,
& decimals
20.3 Continue the same
Practice
Activity 21
21.1 Using models
21.2 Find the part
21.3 Find whole
Practice
Unit 5: Geometric
Concepts
Key terms, essential
questions, p. 275
Getting ready – use as
pre-test
Activity 22
22.1 Properties of
angles & triangles
22.2 Measuring
Practice
Activity 23
5.G.A.I Find area of
geometric shapes
23.1 Quadrilaterals
23.2 Perimeter & area
23.3 Area of triangles,
trapezoids, and
polygons
Practice
explorer: digital or
paper. This project is
research based
Unit: Political
Environment: Types
of Government:
Democracy
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Use Harcourt Brace
chapters: 7, 8, 9:
Colonization of
America
Revolutionary War
The Constitution
Discovery Ed:
*13 Colonies
*US Constitution
*American Revolution
*Causes of American
Revolution
*Branches of
government
*Democracy
Science: Harcourt
School Publishers
Simple Solutions
Science
Discovery Ed
*Food webs & chains
*You in the food web
*Parts of Ecosystems
*Into. to Ecosystems
*Ecosystems &
Biomes
*Types of
interactions within
ecosystems
Brain Pop:
*Ecosystems
*Food Chains
*Energy pyramids
*Types of biomes
Begin Unit on Sound
(see 4th quarter for
details)
Debate: Three groups
of students debate pros
and cons of
Democracy,
Dictatorship,
Monarchy
(connection to reading)
10
coherent writing
3.15 Coherence of
writing; transition,
deleting
W.5.10 Write with
variety of formats
3.16 Prepare to write
argument
W.5.1 Introduce claims,
organize, and provide
evidence
Embedded Assessment
Literature Circle:
Title: Bridge to Teribithia
by Katherine Paterson
Story elements: character
study, descriptive
language, comprehension
skills of main idea and
chapter titles, inference,
prediction, cause/effect
Social Issues: bullying,
friendship, death
Activity 24
5.G.A.3 Draw
polygons in
coordinate planes
24.1 Defining polygons
24.2 Area of polygons
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Activity 25
25.1 Cubes
25.2 Prisms
Practice
Activity 26
26.1 Cubes
26.2 Rectangular
prisms
Practice
Embedded Assessment
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Elementary GT Curriculum Pacing Guide Grade: 5
Theme: Liberty
Quarter 4
READING
VOCABULARY
Springboard Grade 6:
Unit 4: The Final Act
RI.5.5 Acquire and use
rage of academic words
4.1 Preview: Embedded
Assessment
W.5.1 Write arguments
to support claims
4.2 Shakespeare: Intro
RI.5.1 Cite textual
evidence
4.3 Shakespeare: Analyze
W.5.1 Gather and access
relevant information
4.4 Research to deepen
understanding
SL.5.4 Present
information and present
evidence
4.5 Present information:
analyze and synthesize
L.5.5 Figurative
language
4.6 Understand language
of Shakespeare
L.5.6 Acquire and use
range of academic words
4.7 Preview Embedded
Vocabulary Word
Wall:
Shakespeare
synthesize
drama
perspective
limerick
reader’s theater
Vocabulary
specific to
Shakespeare: see
Springboard TE
WRITING
Persuasive Writing
Letter Writing
Limerick
Publish Young
Authors’ books
Simple Solutions
Grammar
Tall Tales (read
variety and show
Personal
Brain Pop video;
Dictionaries -use in follow with own
Literature Circle
writing of tall tales)
Vocab. Workshop
Units 13-16, review,
post test
MATH
SOCIAL STUDIES
POD (Problem of the
day to write in math
notebook?
Morning Talk:
Current events,
weather, quote of the
day: Use Channel 1
Springboard Grade 6 and Discovery Ed
Unit 6: Data Analysis (Weekly Global Wrap)
Key words, essential
questions p. 345
Activity 27
6.SPA.1 Recognize a
statistical question as
one that anticipates
variability
6.SPA.2 Understand
that a set of data
collected to answer a
question has a
distribution
27.1 Survey questions
and variability
27.2 Types of variables
and graphs
27.3 Shapes of
distributions
Practice
Activity 28
5.SPA.3 Recognize
Harcourt Brace
textbook: Our Nation
Grows; refer to
chapters 11, 13, 13, 15
Focus on economic
affects
Discovery Ed:
*American Civil War:
The Causes
*American Civil War:
Reconstruction
*The Unfinished
Nation: The Way We
Were
*Living History:
Living During the
Industrial Revolution
SCIENCE/STEM
Physical Science:
Properties of Sound,
Light, and Motion,
force & Energy
Science: Harcourt
School Publishers
Simple Solutions
Science
Sound: Science
textbook chapter 8:
vibration, volume,
pitch, frequency
Insta Lab (p.275)
Light: Science
textbook chapter 8:
reflection, refraction,
opaque, translucent,
transparent
Investigation (p.
281)
Experiment:
watching sound
waves (p. 293)
Activity: Chart
12
Assessment
RL.5.2 Determine theme
RL.6.5 Analyze story
structure
4.8 Analyze short story
SL.5.6 Adapt speech to a
variety of contexts
4.9 Introducing drama
strategies
4.10 Limericks
RL.5.3 Describe how
plot unfolds
4.11 Reader’s Theater;
close reading
RL.5.2 Determine a
theme
4.12 Poetic performance
RL.5.3 Describe how a
plot unfolds
4.13 Preview play
4.14 Guided reading
RL.5.7
Compare/contrast
experience of reading a
story
4.15 Graphic organizer
Embedded Assessment
Literature Circle:
Novel: Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul
Curtis
setting: depression
Story elements: character
study, descriptive
that a measure of
center for a
numerical data set
summarizes all its
values with a single
number
28.1 Mean and outliers
28.2 Median
28.3 Summarize
Activity
Embedded Assessment
Activity 29
5.SPA.B.5c Measures
of center and
variability; describing
overall pattern
29.1 Range
29.2 Mean absolute
deviation
29.3 Interquartile range
Practice
Activity 30: Graphing
data
5.SPA.B.4 Display
numerical data in
plots
30.1 Box Plots
30.2 Histograms
30.3 More
Practice
Embedded Assessment
Unit 7: Personal
Financial Literacy
Key terms, essential
questions, p. 409
economic growth of
US over time
Project: Day at
Museum; culmination
in-class activity.
Students research an
American figure in
history, dress in
character, and present
to students. Focus on
decades
Motion: Science
textbook chapter 7:
potential, kinetic,
energy, physical
energy, chemical
energy
Experiments:
chemical and
physical change
(teacher generated)
Discovery Ed:
*Intro: Force &
Motion
*Newton’s Laws of
Motion
*Unbalanced Force
*Review: Force &
Motion
*Mass
*Properties of Matter
*Light & Light
Energy
*Northern Lights
*Seeing Light
*Activity: Light
speed
*Sound Waves
*Hearing Sounds
*Seeing Sounds
*Activity: Name that
sound
Brain Pop:
13
language, comprehension
skills of main idea and
chapter titles, inference,
prediction, cause/effect
Social issues:
homelessness, racism,
depression
Activity 31: Using
Financial Services
31.1 Bank accounts
13.2 Using credit
13.3 Planning for the
future
*Light
*Forms of Energy
*Refraction &
Diffraction
*Sound Waves
Project: Create
question, collect data,
plot results on graph,
and share
Real world
connection: contact
banker to speak to
class; walking field trip
to local bank
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Novel List
Title
The Secret Garden
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Cage
Stone Fox
Sarah, Plain & Tall
And Then There Were None
The Whipping Boy
If You Lived in Colonial Times
Star Girl
Because of Winn Dixie
Circle of Gold
McHiggins the Great
Homecoming
White Fang
Holes
The Face on a Milk Carton
Darkness Before Dawn
Number The Stars
The House of Dies Drear
Charlotte's Web
If You Grew Up with George Washington
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Wringer
Catwings
From the Mixed-­‐Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Navajo Long Walk
Where the Red Fern Grows
Who comes with Cannons
The Story of the White House
A Wrinkle in Time
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Judy Blume
Ruth Minsky Sander
John Reynolds Gardiner
Patricia MacLachlan
Agatha Christie
Sid Fleischman
Ann McGovern
Jerry Spinelli
Kate DiCamillo
Candy Dawson Boyd
Virginia Hamilton
Cynthis Voight
Jack London
Louis Sachar
Caroline B. Cooney
Sharon Draper
Lois Lowry
Virginia Hamilton
E. B. White
Ruth Below Gross
Robert Newton Peck
Jerry Spinelli
Ursula K. Le Guin
E. L Konigsburg
Nancy Armstrong
Wilson Rawls
Patricia Beatty
Kate Waters
Madeleine L’Engle
Avi
Lexile
Score
Grd
460
470
500
550
560
570
570
590
590
610
610
620
630
650
660
660
670
670
670
680
680
690
690
700
700
700
700
700
710
740
740
2.5
2.5
2.7
3
3
3.1
3.1
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.5
3.5
3.7
3.7
3.7
3.9
3.9
3.9
4
4
4
4
4.1
4.1
4.1
4.1
4.1
4.1
4.4
4.4
Novel List
Title
The Outsiders
The Westing Game
Sarah Bishop
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Giver
Great Exploration
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Sign of the Beaver
Tuck Everlasting
Indian in The Cupboard
The Glory Field
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Goodbye Vietnam
Maniac Magee
The City in the Lake
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
James and the Giant Peach
The Light in The Forest
The View From Saturday
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Caddie Woodland
Shiloh
The Red Badge of Courage
Old Yeller
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Our World of Mysteries
Author
S. E, Hinton
Ellen Raskin
Scott O'Dell
Barbara Robinson
Lois Lowry
David Neufield
James Lincoln Collier
Elizabeth George Speare
Natalie Babbitt Lynn Reed Banks
Walter Dean Myers
Katherine Paterson
Roald Dahl
Gloria Whelan
Jerry Spinelli
Rachel Neumeier
Elizabeth George Speare Ellen Levine Roald Dahl
Conrad Ritcher
E. L. Konigsburg
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
C. R. Brink
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Stephen Crane
Fred Gibson
Mildred Taylor
Suzanne Lord
Lexile
Score
Grd
750
750
760
760
760
770
770
770
770
780
800
810
810
810
820
840
850
860
870
870
870
880
880
880
890
890
900
910
920
930
4.5
4.5
4.6
4.6
4.6
4.7
4.7
4.7
4.7
4.8
5
5
5
5
5.2
5.5
5.5
5.6
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.9
5.9
5.9
5.9
5.9
6
6
6.3
6.4
Novel List
Title
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
One Upon a Time in the North
The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe Bud, Not Buddy
The Pigman
Mr. Blue Jeans
Eragon
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
The Wizard of Oz
The Eygpt Game
Hatchet
Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince
April Morning
Tales of Real Escape
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Blizzard
The Diary of Anne Frank
Amos Fortune Free Man
Across Five Aprils
Castle
Where the River Runs
Animal Farm
The Death of Lincoln: A Picture History of the Assassination
Nothing But the Truth
Author
Philip Pullman
J. K. Rowling
Phillip Paulman
C. S. Lewis
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paul Zindel
Maryann N. Weidt
Christoher Paloni
Scott O'Dell
Norton Juster
Christopher Paul Curtis
L. Frank Baum
Zilpha Keatley Snyder Gary Paulsen
J. K. Rowling
Howard Fast
Paul Dowswell
Ruud van der Rot and Rian Verhoeven
Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Jim Murphy
Anne Frank
Elizabeth Yates
Irene Hunt
David MacCaulay
Nancy P. Graff
George Orwell
Leroy Hayman
Avi
Lexile
Score
Grd
930
940
940
940
950
950
960
970
1000
1000
1000
1000
1010
1020
1030
1050
1060
1070
1070
1080
1080
1090
1100
1180
1340
1370
Not Assigned
Not Assigned
6.4
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.7
6.7
6.7
6.9
7.4
7.4
7.4
7.4
7.5
7.7
7.9
8.2
8.5
8.6
8.6
8.8
8.8
8.8
8.9
10.3
13.7
13.9
4.5
6.9
Novel List
Subject
Friendship
Colonial Days
Midieval Times
Mystery
NF-­‐Colonial Times
Missing Child
**Adult Content**
Holocaust
Underground Railroad
Great Depression
Underground Railroad/Civil War
Science Fiction
Novel List
Subject
1950's
Mystery
Revolutionary War
Science Fiction/Government/Communities
NF
Revolutionary War
Grief/Relationships
NF-­‐Westward Expansion
Fantasy/Insects
Witchcraft and Wizardry
Witchcraft and Wizardry
Witchcraft and Wizardry
Native Americans (1864-­‐65)
Internal Struggle/Animal Abuse
Racism/Civil Rights
Novel List
Subject
Witchcraft and Wizardry
Fantasy Englan WW II
NF-­‐Levi Strauss
Scince Fiction
Racism/Civil Rights
Witchcraft and Wizardry
NF
NF-­‐Holocaust
Mythology
NF Diary/Holocaust
Civil War
NF-­‐Castles
NF-­‐Cambodian Refugees
NF-­‐Biography
Bill of Rights/Point of View/Freedom of Speech
Vocabulary Workshop – Grade 5 Strand: Language Topic: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use Standard Statements 4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-­‐ meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-­‐appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis). c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases. 5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context. b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words. 6. Acquire and use accurately grade-­‐appropriate general academic and domain-­‐specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).