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5th grade Reading & writing Resources

Fifth grade curriculum can be challenging enough without an added language barrier. Help ensure your English learner’s academic success with Education.com’s curated collection of fifth grade reading and writing EL resources. Fiction and nonfiction comprehension, figurative language skills, and grammar nuances will all become second nature as your child gains valuable tools that will help them master the English language and prepare them for future success.

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5th grade

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Reading Closely

Reading Closely

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It's packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

5th grade

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There’s No I in Theme-work!

There’s No I in Theme-work!

That’s right! The theme applies to everyone! Use this interactive lesson to teach your students how to find the theme of a fictional text.

4th grade

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Ecosystems Explained

Ecosystems Explained

This integrated reading and science lesson is packed with content on ecosystems. Your students will use the reading strategy of synthesizing while comparing and contrasting information from various sources.

5th grade

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What's So Different? Comparing Characters

What's So Different? Comparing Characters

Using your acting skills and a great book by Chris Van Allsburg, you will lead your students on an adventure to compare characters and events throughout a book.

4th grade

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Exploring Different Points of View

Exploring Different Points of View

The activities in this lesson will engage students in thinking about how a person’s position, needs, and concerns affect their point of view on an issue. Students will apply this to characters in "The Memory String" by Eve Bunting.

5th grade

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Parts of Speech that Describe

Parts of Speech that Describe

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying parts of speech such as adverbs and adjectives in a text. This lesson plan can also support the lesson Varsity Parts of Speech Review.

5th grade

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Informational Text: Close Reading

Informational Text: Close Reading

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

5th grade

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Main Idea and Details in Fiction

Main Idea and Details in Fiction

In this EL support lesson, your students will use introductory phrases to write about the main idea and details in a fictional story.

5th grade

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Dive Into Context Clues

Dive Into Context Clues

Help your students flex their vocabulary muscles with this lesson on using context clues. By deciphering the meanings of different nonsense words, young readers will greatly improve their comprehension skills.

5th grade

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Internal & External Character Traits

Internal & External Character Traits

In this support lesson, your students will compare and contrast character traits using a graphic organizer. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Two Characters.

5th grade

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Determining the Theme of a Poem

Determining the Theme of a Poem

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

5th grade

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Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations

Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations

In fifth grade, students are expected to analyze complex texts on a deeper level. Teach your students to use close reading strategies, like rereading and annotation symbols, to dive deeper into fictional texts.

5th grade

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Comparing Character Traits

Comparing Character Traits

Use this lesson to help your ELs compare and contrast characters' thoughts and actions using a Venn Diagram. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Comparing Two Characters

Comparing Two Characters

Your students have probably heard of both Mickey Mouse and Ironman, but have they ever compared and contrasted them? This lesson engages students in a fun double bubble map activity while helping them learn about internal character traits.

5th grade

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Reading Response Letters

Reading Response Letters

How can you *see* what your students are thinking while they read? Try reading response letters in your class. Students will practice formatting letters and learn to discuss their thinking about literature in writing.

4th grade

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Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Before students can respond to literature critically, they must have a strong grasp of big ideas and summary writing. Support your ELs in these foundational reading skills by introducing a three-sentence paragraph frame for summary writing.

5th grade

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Poetry Themes

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

4th grade

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What's a Metaphor?

What's a Metaphor?

In this lesson, students complete worksheets and engage in peer discussions to learn more about metaphors. Young writers will love making their own creative metaphors.

5th grade

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Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions

Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions

Use this lesson to help your ELs search for signal words in texts to determine if a statement is a fact or an opinion. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the Is It True? lesson.

5th grade

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A Living Timeline: The American Revolution

A Living Timeline: The American Revolution

Make history come alive with this interactive lesson! Students will have a blast presenting a "living timeline" to help their classmates understand the events of the Revolutionary War.

5th grade

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What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation

What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation

Bring theme to life with Chris Van Allsburg's *The Sweetest Fig*, a story with a great message for young readers to discover. This lesson pairs a wonderful read-aloud with activities and fun videos to keep your students engaged.

5th grade

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Cause and Effect with Comic Strips

Cause and Effect with Comic Strips

Pow! Bam! Splat! In this integrated reading and science lesson, students will explore the relationship between cause and effect. They will get creative and create cause-and-effect comic strips!

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Informational Text: Close Reading

Informational Text: Close Reading

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather! Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions. This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

5th grade

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Poetry: Figurative Language

Poetry: Figurative Language

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

5th grade

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