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5th and 6th Grade Common Core Reading Resources : Page 21

Knock, knock! It’s the U.S. Census Bureau! In this lesson plan, students analyze primary sources in the form of census data to do research that helps them answer questions about famous people and the time period during which they lived.

Researching the Past Using Primary Sources

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.

Determining the Theme of a Poem

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

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.

What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation

Use pantomime performance to drive your students to predict, question, and cite main ideas. With this dramatic lesson plan, your class will craftily capture information on a graphic organizer to boost their reading comprehension!

Picture Walk: A Preview

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.

Informational Text: Close Reading

In this lesson, Significance of "Let Freedom Ring" in MLK, Jr.'s Speech, students will be able to understand the allusion Martin Luther King, Jr. makes to the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Have students discuss allusions in this speech.

Significance of "Let Freedom Ring" in MLK, Jr.'s Speech

Take your fourth and fifth graders on a deep dive into the civil rights movement with this lesson on Amelia Boynton Robinson. A key activist in the movement, Amelia played a critical role in organizing the Selma to Montgomery march. Your students will read, annotate, and analyze her biography through multiple reads, before discussing the text with their classmates. 

Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson?

Got facts? Got opinions? Use this lesson plan to teach your students to evaluate texts for facts and opinions. Students will use a non-fiction text selection to collect quotes as proof. 

Find ‘Em and Quote ‘Em! Facts and Opinions

Use this lesson to help your ELs quickly find information on a specific topic by looking for a noun and its pronouns in a nonfiction text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Ecosystems Explained.

Information from Multiple Sources

Here's a pun-filled lesson for your students! Ask students to apply their knowledge of puns and Adobe Spark in this maker-centered lesson. This lesson can follow the Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities and the Pun Visuals lessons.

Spark Post Pun

Learn to whip up a delicious treat as you practice important reading skills in this colorful worksheet!

Find the Main Idea: A Recipe for Successful Baking

After completing Jim Murphy&rsquo;s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters&rsquo; images, pictures, and maps.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Pre-Reading Activity

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students begin reading&nbsp;The Great Fire.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Discussion Guide #1

Invite students to reflect on a book character&rsquo;s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Anne Shirley from L.M. Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Character Quote Response: Anne From Anne of Green Gables

Invite students to reflect on a book character&rsquo;s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Jonas from The Giver.

Character Quote Response: Jonas From The Giver

Invite students to reflect on a book character&rsquo;s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Character Quote Response: Ivan From The One and Only Ivan

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

After-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Individualize middle-grade learning experiences with this fun reading response choice board!

During-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

Find the Main Idea: Grow a Salsa Garden! 

Read all about the origins of Oregon&rsquo;s fascinating Wizard Island in this engaging passage!

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Wizard Island

Discover the science experiment that tested whether humans could survive in an isolated ecosystem in this fascinating passage!

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