Ms. McLemore's 5th Grade Language Arts

Topics and Units

• Topics Covered this Year
• November 17 to 21
• November 10 to 14
• November 3 to 7
• October 27 to 31
• October 20 to 24
• October 13 to 17
• October 6 to 10
• September 23 to 26
• September 8 to 12
• September 2 to 5

Topics Covered

• Writing
  • Narratives
  • How To
  • Autobiography
  • Poetry
  • Research Papers (Biographies)
  • Journal Writing
• Language
  • Sentence Structure
  • Kinds of Sentences
  • Capitalization and Punctuation
  • Parts of Speech

   

  Nov. 17th – 21st 2008“Iditarod Dream”

  Grammar: Complex Sentences

   

   Spelling: Unstressed Endings /en/ and /er/ american, frozen, button, chapter, tractor, golden, taken, harbor, father, color, ancestor, hidden

   

  Writer’s Log: Lesson 8 Read Aloud Anthology: “Geoffrey Pyke’s Cool Idea “ pp.57-63

  Vocabulary Words: ease, propose, portable, undertaking, penetrate, durable, indebted, igneous

   

  Concept Cards:

  57-64

   

  November 10th – 14th 2008 “The Boonsville Bombers”

  Grammar: Clauses

  Writer’s Log: Lesson 7 Read Aloud Anthology: “Tom paints the fence” pp48-56

   

  Vocabulary Words: melancholy, insignificant, absorbed, dilapidated, manipulate, pompous, precocious, scheme

  Spelling: Words ending in  -ed and –ing : charged, spied, moving, trying, practicing, injured, carrying, tasted, receiving, becoming, lying, dying

  November  3rd – 7th We’ll never Forget you Roberto Clemente continued…

   

  Writer’s Log: Lesson 3 ( we missed this one because of Ike)
  Read Aloud Anthology pp 14-24: “Journal of a Teenage Genius”

   Vocabulary Words: sufficient, mishap, defer, wrath, hilarious, likeness, dabble, ordeal

   

  Grammar:

  simple and Compound Sentences continued

   

  Spelling:
  lineup, ace, error, artificial, control tower

  dedicated

   

   

  Oct. 27th – 30th 2008 “We’ll never forget you Roberto Clemente”

   

  Grammar: Simple and Compound Sentences/ Using Conjunctions

   Spelling: Endings  /zher/ and /cher/ treasure, capture, feature, pleasure, measure, creature, picture, adventure, mixture, structure, pasture, culture

  Writer’s Log: (We had such a busy week last week we didn’t get to it so we will do it this week)

  Lesson 6 

  Read Aloud Anthology:

  Pp 40-47 “A Concert to Remember”

   Vocabulary Words: acclaim, curt, imply, furor, endow, hamper, qualm, enthralled

   Concept Cards: 41-48, 58, 79, 92, 137, 145, 167, 186, 188

   

   

  Oct. 20th – 24th 2008“Mick Harte was Here”

  Grammar: Compound Subjects and Predicates

  Spelling : Words with /s/, /z/, and /sh/

  percent, silence, years, refused, ancient, pressure, machine, notice, scene

   

  Writer’s Log: Lesson 6

   Read Aloud Anthology: Pp 40-47 “A Concert to Remember”

   Vocabulary Words: acclaim, curt, imply, furor, endow, hamper, qualm, enthralled

   Concept Cards:

  41-48, 58, 79, 92, 137, 145, 167, 186, 188

October 13th – 17th 2008 “Dear Rosa Parks”

Writer’s Log: Lesson 5

- Read Aloud    Anthology pp.32-39
 “Summer Days”

Writer’s Log pp.26-28

-Rev It Up!  pp.12-15

“The History of Hollywood

Vocabulary Words: hoist, jubilee, unremitting, scruples, nudge, tranquil, rejuvenate, eccentric

Concept Cards: 33-40

 Grammar: Complete and Simple Predicate

 

Spelling: Vowels before ” r”
parts, history, warning, declare, despair, shirt, learning, backward, border, prepared, harsh, research

 

October 6th – 10th 2008

Yang the Third and Her Impossible FamilyGrammar: Complete and Simple Subjects

Spelling: Words with Long o and Long u:
soul, smoke, move, clue, fruits, lose, chase, stole, prove, produce, juice, dove

Writer’s Log: Cumulative Rev. Lessons 1-4

Test on Friday October 10th

 

September 23rd – 26th 2008 Sees Behind Trees

Grammar:

Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences

Spelling: Words with Long A and E- stayed, brain, thief, meat, flight, style, delighted, daily, breathe, meanwhile, believes, tonight

Writer’s Log: Lesson 4
Read Aloud  Anthology:
pp.25 31                               

 “Elephants can Mimic Traffic”

Vocabulary Words:

capable, emanate, distinguish, tendency, detect, mundane, revelation; elicit

 

 

September 8th   – 12th 2008


Hot and Cold Summer

Grammar: Declarative & Interrogative Sentences

Spelling: Words with Short Vowels
master, meant, quit, ahead, bread, mother, build, ready, above, front, busy, does

 

Writer’s Log: Read Aloud: Journal of a Teenage Genius pp. 14-22

 Vocabulary Words: sufficient, mishap, defer, wrath, hilarious, likeness, dabble, ordeal

Week of September 2nd – 5th 2008

 Writer’s Log :Read Aloud  I’m a Mantee  pp 7-13

Vocabulary Words: undulate, modest, immune, stately, encumbered, placid, whimsical, endearing

 Concept Cards: 9-16, 44, 50, 99, 101-102, 108, 155, 157

Grammar :Common and Proper Nouns

The Golden Rules of Capitalization

 

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