SUMMIT HILL ELEMENTARY 5TH GRADE
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Language Arts / Writing

Georgia Standards of Excellence - Grade 5 ELA
Georgia Standards of Excellence - Grade 6 ELA
Reading/ELA Learning Progressions and Activities for at Home

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Argumentative/Opinion Writing

Standards: 
ELAGSE5W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
a. Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
b. Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
c. Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses(e.g., consequently,specifically).
d. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.

Opinion Checklist
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Opinion Rubric
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Informational Writing

Standards: 
ELAGSE5W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
a. Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
c. Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses(e.g., in contrast, especially).
d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented​
Informational Checklist
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Informational Rubric
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Research Resources

Narrative Writing

Standards: 
ELAGSE5W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use narrative techniques,such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
c. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Narrative Checklist
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Narrative Rubric
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Grammar

5th Grade Topics
  • Complete sentences
  • Expand, combine, reduce sentences
  • Figures of speech: similes and metaphors
  • Idioms, proverbs, adages
  • Word relationships: synonyms, antonyms, homographs
  • Context clues
  • Titles
  • Commas: items in a series, introductory elements, tag questions. direct address
  • Verbs: perfect verb aspect; using verb tense and aspect
  • Prepositions, interjections, conjunctions​
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Dialects and registers
6th Grade Topics
  • Complete sentences
  • Vary sentence patterns
  • ​Figures of speech: personification
  • Word relationships: cause/effect, part/whole, item/category
  • Word connotations (associations) and denotations (definitions)
  • Context clues
  • Titles
  • Punctuation to set of parenthetical elements (commas, parentheses, dashes)
  • Pronouns: subjective, objective, possessive, intensive, shifts in pronoun number and person, vague pronouns
  • Standard English, style, tone​

ELA / Writing Resources

ABCya!
Brain Pop
Grammar Blast
Internet 4 Classrooms: Language Arts
Gamequarium: Language Arts
www.StoryBird.com
www.bubbl.us
www.writecomics.com
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