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Grade 5

• Language

  • 5.L.1
  • 5.L.2.a
  • 5.L.2.b
  • 5.L.2.c
  • 5.L.2.d
  • 5.L.2
  • 5.L.2.e
  • 5.L.3.a
  • 5.L.3
  • 5.L.4.b
  • 5.L.4.c
  • 5.L.4
  • 5.L.5.a
  • 5.L.5.b
  • 5.L.5.c
  • 5.L.5
  • 5.L.6

• Reading: Fluency

  • 5.RF.3
  • 5.RF.4.b

• Reading: Informational

  • 5.RI.1
  • 5.RI.3
  • 5.RI.8
  • 5.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 5.RL.1
  • 5.RL.2
  • 5.RL.3
  • 5.RL.4
  • 5.RL.5
  • 5.RL.6
  • 5.RL.9

• Speaking & Listening

  • 5.SL.1
  • 5.SL.1.c
  • 5.SL.2
  • 5.SL.3
  • 5.SL.4
  • 5.SL.5
  • 5.SL.6

• Writing

  • 5.W.1.a
  • 5.W.1
  • 5.W.1.c
  • 5.W.2.a
  • 5.W.2.c
  • 5.W.2.d
  • 5.W.2
  • 5.W.3.a
  • 5.W.3.b
  • 5.W.3.c
  • 5.W.3.d
  • 5.W.3.e
  • 5.W.3
  • 5.W.4
  • 5.W.5
  • 5.W.7
  • 5.W.9.a
  • 5.W.9
  • 5.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 5.L.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)

Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)

Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.

Words Within Words: LATKES

How many words can you find within LATKES?

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

Students will build words using the letters found in “STUFFING.”

Words Within Words: GENERAL

How many words can you find within “general”?

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Word Pyramids

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to PLANET

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?

Word Pyramid: O to Stones

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

Students will go from “East” to “West” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)

Students will go from “Work” to “Hard” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)

Students will go from “TWO” to “SIX” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

Students will go from “COLD” to “COOL” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

Students will go from “Fast” to “Race” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)

Students will go from “ARM” to “LEG” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)

Students will go from “KID” to “OLD” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)

Students will go from “SKY” to “RED” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)

Students will go from “Sun” to “Hot” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)

Students will go from “TEA” to “HOT” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)

Students will go from “Band” to “Sing” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)

Students will go from “Foot” to “Shoe” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)

Students will go from “Fire” to “Warm” by changing just one letter per step.

Word Ladders Introduction

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Punctuation Power

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.