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Fifth Grade Literacy Resources
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Unit One:
Playing with Words
This four-week unit encourages students to experiment with language and to explore their personal writing style.
Unit Two:
Renaissance Thinking
This six-week unit focuses on the research process, as well as the creative and critical thinking used by writers, inventors, and famous people from the Renaissance and beyond.
Unit Three:
Clues to a Culture
This six-week unit focuses on aspects of Native American nations/cultures as revealed through pairings of literature and informational text.
Unit Four:
America in Conflict
This nine-week unit focuses on the causes and consequences of the American Civil War, as revealed through literature and informational text.
Unit Five:
Exploration, Real and Imagined
This five-week unit builds on the study of character development begun in Unit Four by having students articulate what we learn from real and fictional characters’ experiences.
Unit Six:
Coming of Age
This final six-week unit focuses on the genre of the novel, and uses "coming of age" as a unifying theme.