Grade 5 Model Lessons

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Grade 5 Model Lessons

• Unit 2
• Building Bridges
• Through Narratives

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Texts

• Shared text - English
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Shared text - Spanish
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Read-Aloud text
• The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Carlson

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Instructional Techniques

• Think-Alouds
• Book Talk
• Picture Walk
• Active Listening

• Think-Pair-Share
• Modeling
• Chunking parts of words for meaning

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Instructional Basics

• Reading Skills
• - Predicting
• - Activating prior knowledge
• - Identifying purpose for Reading
• - Skimming
• - Developing vocabulary
• - Responding to text

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Instructional Basics

• Writing Skills
• - Four kinds of sentences
• - Simple, compound and complex sentences
• - Capitalization
• - Punctuation
• - Story map
• - Use of the Writing Process steps

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Instructional Basics

• Poetry -- Free Verse
• - Characteristics
• - Meter, rhyme, rhythm, stanza
• - Famous poets
• - Poetry folder
• - Two samples

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Instructional Basics

• Language
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Idioms

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Instructional Basics

• Morning Menus (TR1)
• Daily Oral Language
• Spelling Units 10, 3, and 4
• Read-alouds

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Instructional Basics

• Pre-unit activities for students
• - Complete an audiocassette of an oral reading
  sample

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Instructional Basics

• Unit Overview (A1)
• Student Unit Overview (B1)
• Student Poetry Folder (Lesson 5)
• Student Reading Spiral (Lesson 1)
• Student Routine News of the
• Day (Lesson 1)

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Activity Routines

• Reading Spiral Objectives
• To promote reading across many genres
• To monitor active program of independent
  reading
  
• To support individual choice and interest in
  reading
  
• To involve parent/guardian in independent
  reading program

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Activity Routines

• Reading Spiral
• Create a Reading Spiral
• Include instruction sheet on the
• use of each part of the Reading
• Spiral

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Lesson OverviewLessons 1 2

• Building Background
• Recognizing Genre Types
• Characteristics of Realistic Fiction
• News of the Day routine

• Authors purpose
• Activating prior knowledge
• Book talk
• Purpose for reading

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Activity Anticipation Guide

• Define (A6, B17)
• Purpose
• To identify thinking about
• specific subjects
• To activate prior knowledge

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Activity Anticipation Guide

• Distribute Anticipation Guide (B17)
• Complete
• Discuss

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Activity Routines

• News of the Day Objectives
• Speaking
• Writing
• Reading
• Cross-curriculum
• Language conventions
• Questioning/answering skills

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Activity Routines

• News of the Day activity
• Sentence strips/markers
• Newspapers
• Identify news item
• Record on sentence strip
• Report news

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Lesson OverviewLessons 3 4

• Vocabulary development
• Homophones
• During reading strategy - think-aloud
• Making predictions

• Text-to-text connections
• Vocabulary development
• Literary elements of realistic fiction

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Lesson OverviewLessons 5 6

• Routine Poetry Folder
• Text-to-world connections
• Developing vocabulary
• Characterization
• Understanding plot

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Activity Think-Alouds

• Improve comprehension
• Make implicit information explicit
• Facilitate connections with self, texts, and
  world
  
• Allow readers to construct meaning
• Provide metacognitive support

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Activity Think-Alouds

• Who does a think-aloud?
• Teacher models/students observe
• Teacher models/students assist
• Student models/other students assist
• Student models/teacher observes/assesses
• How is a think-aloud done?
• Orally
• Written form

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Activity Think-Alouds

• Steps
• Choose short section of text
• Provide copy of text to each reader
• Identify strategy (or strategies) to be
• highlighted
• State purpose of reading
• Read text and concurrently think aloud

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Activity Think-Aloud

• Examine front back covers, and pictures in
  book
  
• Consider prior knowledge about author
• Focus think-aloud on predicting
• Use Post-It notes, as needed
• Present think-aloud orally

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Activity Think-Aloud

• Use consistently
• Model as strategy to measure comprehension
• Identify products questions, connections,
  predictions, ah-has

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Lesson OverviewLessons 7 8

• Literary devices (onomatopoeia, alliteration)
• Idioms
• Prior knowledge predictions

• Vocabulary development
• Punctuation
• Foreshadowing
• Routine Independent Reading

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Activity Class Books

• Class books
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Onomatopoeia
• Idioms

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Activity Class Books

• Purpose of Class Books
• To create a year-long collection of examples
  of alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, and
  idioms found in the literature read in class and
  read independently
• To recognize the craft of the individual
  writers and the effectiveness of language used in
  literature

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Activity Class Books

• Use Bridge to Terabithia and find examples of
  alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, and idioms
  
• Record examples on insertion slip
• Glue/paste in class book
• Share examples

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Lesson OverviewLessons 9 10

• Developing vocabulary
• After-reading strategy skimming for answers
• Narrative story map

• Similes and metaphors
• Sentences
• Narrative story map
• Complex sentences

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Lesson OverviewLessons 11 12

• Poetry writing
• Developing vocabulary
• Proofreading editing

• Reading poetry
• Capitalization
• Revising
• Responding to literature

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Activity Revision Techniques

• Purpose of revision
• to take another look at the draft
• to add details, dialogue, action
• to remove, rearrange, and rewrite
• Need for revision

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Activity Revising (Lesson 11)Revision Techniques

• Use of carets ?
• Use of arrows
• Use of asterisks
• Use of spider legs
• Use of cut and tape
• Use of highlights
• Use of circle
• carets
• arrows

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Lesson OverviewLessons 13, 14, 15

• Nouns
• Active voice
• Summarizing with two-column notes

• Writing final draft
• Response to poetry
• Unit assessment

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Assessment Opportunities

• Responses
• Illustrated Dictionary
• Oral Presentations
• Student Practice activities
• Writing
• Free Verse Poems
• Narrative

• Other
• Reading Spiral
• Independent Reading
• Class participation
• News of the Day
• Spelling tests
• DOL activities