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August 12 - August 18

Identifying Central Idea: Government Must Fund Inventors

August 19 - August 25

Decoding short vowel sounds.

Using Critical vocabulary words from the story “ The Inventor’s Secret”.

Generative Vocabulary: Using words with prefix (ex-, e-) and Greek root -phon in making a sentence.

Reading Comprehension: Identifying the point of view in the story.

Reading Comprehension: Identifying the topic, supporting details and central idea of the story “The Inventor’s Secret”.

Identifying group of words whether a sentence, sentence fragment, run-on, or comma splice.

Guess the word game.

August 26 - September 1

Finding the Central Idea: Winds of Hope

Text Structure: Identifying text structure of a certain part of the story, Winds of Hope.

September 2 - September 8

Winds of Hope

Group Activity: Sentence Type Sort &amp; Create

Identifying the Text Structure of the Story

Expository Essay: "The Lightbulb Moment: Thomas Edison and the invention of the incandescent lamp"

September 9 - September 15

Reading Comprehension: "Wheelchair Sports: Hang Glider to Wheelchair Dealer"

Identifying Long a and e sounds

Identifying the Central/ Main Idea of the Story: "Wheelchair Sports: Hang Glider to Wheelchair Dealer"

1. Responding to the text In Wheelchair Sports: Hang Glider to Wheeler-Dealer 2. Writing a paragraph as a response to the prompt questions about the story

Collaborative Discussion: "Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (mis) Adventures in flight"

September 16 - September 22

Author's Craft: Captain Arsenio Inventions an (Mis) Adventures in Flight

Literary Elements: Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis) Adventures in Flight

Captain Arsenio: Adventures and (Mis) Adventures in Flight "Making Connections: 1. Text to Self 2. Text to Text 3. Text to the World"

Selection Review: Writing a reflection based on the most favorite selection read in module 1

Agree and Disagree Collaborative Problem Solving: The use of cellphone in school and the limited time of computer use in the classroom

September 23 - September 29

Spelling

Shared Reading: My Ways to Tell a Story

Grammar: Recognizing Common and Proper Nouns

Literary Elements: Characters, plot, conflict, resolution, events

September 30 - October 6

Reading Comprehension: A Trip to a Cave

Grammar: Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Reading Comprehension: Developing the characters of the story "Airborn"

The Secret Garden: Making Predictions

October 14 - October 20

Identifying Plural and Irregular Nouns

Identifying the Main idea and Supporting details of the story, The Miracle of Spring

Figurative Language: Writing Sound Devices

October 21 - October 27

Shared Reading: Answering questions from The Poem That Will Not End at stations.

Using correct vocabulary words in a paragraph.

October 28 - November 3

Read and Respond: Counting Birds

Verb Tenses: Writing a paragraph using verb tenses to convey time, sequence, condition, and state

Reading Comprehension: Identifying the Author’s purpose of the story The Poem That Will Not End

November 4 - November 10

Analyze the author's craft in a text by examining how their choices in language, structure, and literary devices shape meaning and engage the reader

Identifying Text Structure: Mayon Volcano’s Eruption Patters

Matching sound devices and figurative language to its example and meaning.

November 11 - November 17

Understanding Text Structure: Chronological Order/ Sequence “Eruption”

Identifying imagery in the text “Eruption”

Language Arts - Grade Five

Group Activity: Sentence Type Sort & Create