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This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 29
Figurative Language Review
Figurative Language Review
As your child begins to write more sophisticated texts, understanding how to use figurative language can bring their writing to the next level. Challenge your child to look for homophones and homonyms when they're reading and to make a list to use in their future writing. For an extra challenge, have them use their list of homophones and homonyms to create puns to liven up their writing!
As students begin to write more sophisticated texts, understanding how to use figurative language can bring their writing to the next level. Have your students look for homophones and homonyms in their reading and make a list to use in their future writing. For an extra challenge, have students use their list of homophones and homonyms to create puns!
Pun with Homophones
Worksheet
Pun with Homophones
Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Spark Post Pun
Lesson plan
Spark Post Pun
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.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Create a Pun
Worksheet
Create a Pun
Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Number Lines
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Number Lines
Number lines are essential tools in supporting your child's burgeoning fraction addition and subtraction skills. Number lines can help your child visualize fractions as parts of a whole and strengthen their conceptual understanding. Encourage your child to use a number line to solve problems before they move on to abstract algorithms.
Number lines are essential tools in supporting your students' burgeoning fraction addition and subtraction skills. Number lines help students visualize fractions as parts of a whole and strengthen their conceptual understanding. Try using highlighters or colored pens to mark the number line as you model this method.
Blank Number Lines
Worksheet
Blank Number Lines
Use these versatile number lines worksheet to help kids practice any skill, including rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.
5th grade
Math
Worksheet
Adding Fractions on Number Lines
Lesson plan
Adding Fractions on Number Lines
Getting ready to add fractions? This lesson reviews how to add fractions with unlike denominators using number lines. Students will focus on understanding the process and reasoning behind each step.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Compare Common Denominators Methods
Lesson plan
Compare Common Denominators Methods
Challenge your students to compare two methods for finding the least common multiple between two fractions. Use this lesson on its own or as support for the lesson Make It Work! Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Analyzing Nonfiction Texts: Main Ideas and Details
Analyzing Nonfiction Texts: Main Ideas and Details
About 50 percent of a fifth grader's reading time involves nonfiction text analysis. As your child encounters increasingly complex texts, providing ample opportunities to practice this skill. Encourage your child to use graphic organizers to record the main idea and supporting details as they read, and remind them to defend their answers and opinions with textual evidence.
About 50 percent of a fifth grader's reading time involves nonfiction text analysis. As students encounter increasingly complex, domain-specific texts, offer ample opportunities to practice this skill. Use graphic organizers to record the main idea and supporting details, model cohesive written responses, and remind students to defend their answers and opinions with textual evidence.
Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Worksheet
Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
What's the Point?
Lesson plan
What's the Point?
Give your students practice explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. With these sports-themed texts, students will make inferences about the author and use text evidence to prove it.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Match Author's Point with Evidence
Lesson plan
Match Author's Point with Evidence
Use this lesson to help your ELs identify and discuss the author's point and the information that supports it. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the What’s the Point? lesson.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Revision Review
Revision Review
Many children resist revision because they feel they are "done," or because they are attached to their first draft and don't want to make changes. Instead of revising their work, practice with sample texts, reviewing specific skills like correcting run-on sentences. Once your child is comfortable with the revision process, they will be ready to try it on their own writing.
Many students resist revision because they feel they are "done," or because they are attached to their first draft and don't want to make changes. Instead of revising student work, practice with sample texts, reviewing specific skills like correcting run-on sentences. Once your child is comfortable with the revision process, they will be ready to try it on their own or on their peers' writing.
Proof the Paragraph
Worksheet
Proof the Paragraph
Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Partner Proofreading
Worksheet
Partner Proofreading
Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Sentences: Complete or Fragment?
Lesson plan
Sentences: Complete or Fragment?
A deeper understanding of what constitutes a complete sentence will help your young writers understand how to create technically correct and more complex sentences. This practice will help students edit and revise their writing.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
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