Unit 1

READING/LITERATURE: APPLY A WIDE RANGE OF STRATEGIES TO COMPREHEND, INTERPRET, EVALUATE, APPRECIATE, AND RESPOND TO A WIDE VARIETY OF TEXTS

1.1a Vocabulary: Develop and expand knowledge of words and word meanings to increase vocabulary: Words in context: Use knowledge of word parts and word relationships, as well as context clues (the meaning of the text around a word), to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words

Reading Upgrade

Excellent movie lesson and interactive practice

Context Is The Key

Multiple choice lesson and practice

Say It Another Way

Fill in the blank lesson and practice

Using Multiple Meanings

Multiple Choice Lesson and practice

Guessing Vocabulary In Context

Guessing Vocabulary In Context II

Basic Drill

Breaking Down Compound Words

Practice recognizing the parts of compound words

Compound Word Characters

Practice with compound words

Go For Grammar Gold

Practice contractions

Context Clues

Interactive Lesson

Context Clues Teaching Aids

 

Direct Definition Context Clues Tutorial

Interactive Lesson

Using Context Clues

Three online quizzes

What Are Context Clues?

Lesson with a quiz

 

 

1.2b Vocabulary: Develop and expand knowledge of words and word meanings to increase vocabulary: Affixes, roots, and stems: Apply knowledge of root words to determine the meaning of unknown words within a passage

Fish Tanks

Students break a word in its parts; prefix, root word, suffix

Putting Down Roots

Drag and Drop Lesson and practice

Putting Down Roots, Part II

Drag and Drop Lesson and practice

Putting Roots Into Action

Putting Roots Into Action, Part II

Multiple Choice Lesson and practice

Root Words

Powerpoint presentation with practice; some of the sound effects are LOUD.

Rooting Out Words

Funbrain

What’s A Root?

What’s A Root? Part II

Fill in the blank lesson and practice

 

 

 

 

1.2c Vocabulary: Develop and expand knowledge of words and word meanings to increase vocabulary: Affixes, roots, and stems: Use word origins, including knowledge of less common roots "(graph = writing, terras = earth)" and word parts "(hemi = half, bio = life)" from Greek and Latin to analyze the meaning of complex words "(terrain, hemisphere, biography)"

 

 

1.4a Vocabulary: Develop and expand knowledge of words and word meanings to increase vocabulary: Using resource materials and aids: Use a thesaurus to determine related words and concepts

Thesaurus Practice

Drag and drop exercise

Roget’s Thesaurus

Online version

Synonym.com

Online thesaurus

Rhyme Zone

Find rhyming words and synonyms

 

 

1.4b Vocabulary: Develop and expand knowledge of words and word meanings to increase vocabulary: Using resource materials and aids: Determine the meanings, pronunciation, and derivations of unknown words by using a glossary and/or dictionary

Ask Dr. Dictionary

Online dictionary

Free Dictionary

Online dictionary

Specialty Dictionaries

Online dictionaries that deal with specialized vocabularies (business, travel, physics, etc.)

Word Central

Merriam Webster’s Online dictionary

Your Dictionary

Online dictionary

 

 

3.1a Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Literal understanding: Use pre-reading strategies independently (to preview, activate prior knowledge, predict content of text, formulate questions that might be answered by the text, and establish purpose for reading)

Questioning Toolkit

Guide to developing questions to ask; would probably be helpful as a handout

Prediction Lesson

Lesson plan from Scholastic

Follow the Clues

Lesson Plan

Guess What Comes Next

Online Activity

Prediction Cards

Lesson plan from Scholastic

Prediction Plan

Worksheet

 

 

 

 

3.1b Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Literal understanding: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction that is appropriately designed for fifth grade

Brainchild Test

Reading Selection and online quiz (multiple choice)

Cow Comprehension

When you answer inference questions correctly, the cows are moved to the pen.

Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Conclusions, Part II

Answer online questions about a short text.

Comprehension Test

Online practice test from the Texas state test

Look for the Fine Print

Practice critically reading ads.  Interactive questions

News Stories from the BBC

Online quizzes over actual news stories; includes option to hear the stories read aloud

Math News Stories from the BBC

Online quizzes over actual news stories which include math questions; includes option to hear the stories read aloud

Bees

The Happy Monkey

Online Reading and Quizzes

CRCT Test

Online state practice test

FCAT

Printout of Florida practice test

Online Practice Reading Tests

Selection from Pearson Publishing

Reading Exercise

Reading Exercise, Part II

Online Tests

Brain Power

Online Reading and quiz

TAKS Test

Released printouts of the Texas tests

 

 

 

 

3.2a Comprehension/critical literacy: Interact with the words and concepts in the text to construct an appropriate meaning: Inferences and interpretation: Apply prior knowledge and experience to make inferences and respond to new information presented in text

Look For the Fine Print

How To Be A Critical Reader

How Are They Selling It?

Online lesson and quiz from the BBC

Teaching Students To Make Inferences

Teacher Strategies

 

 

 

 

4.2a Literature: Read to contrast meaning and respond to a wide variety of literary forms: Literary elements: Demonstrate knowledge of literary elements and techniques and how they affect the development of a literary work: Develop a knowledge of the literary elements of fiction (plot, problems, attempts to resolve conflicts, resolution, etc.) and the text structure of nonfiction (compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence, main idea, and details.

Short Story Elements

Online Quiz

Main Idea Lesson

What’s the Big Idea?

What’s The Big Idea III?

Lesson with worksheets

Setting, Plot and Theme

Online quiz on recognizing the elements of a story

Get The Idea

Lesson and online practice

Identify the Main Idea - Fiction

Online quiz

Identify the Main Idea – Non ficton

Online quiz

Reading Exercises

Online quizzes over historical figures

Summarize As You Read

Online quiz

Main Idea Game

Identify the main idea to get clues to a silly riddle

Interactive Circle Plot Graph

Online graphing of the elements of a plot.  Use with any story