5th Grade Home
Reading Workshop
Reading Workshop Units of Study:
- Living a Reader’s Life
- Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes
- Argument and Advocacy: Researching
- Debatable Issues
- Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction
- Learning through Reading: Biography Study
- Fantasy Book Clubs
Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop Units of Study:
- Developing a Writing Life
- Narrative Craft
- Research Based Argument Essays
- Information Writing: Feature Articles on Topic of Personal Expertise
- Lens of History: Biography
- Fantasy
- Literary and Comparative, Informational Essays
Math
Math:
- Fluency with whole numbers and decimals
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Operations with fractions
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Geometry and Measurement
- Patterns
- Graphing
- Converting units of measurement
- Geometry and volume
Social Studies
Social Studies:
- New World Rising
- European Explorers
- Geography in Western Hemisphere
- Government in Western Hemisphere
- Economy in Western Hemisphere
- Cultural Diversity
- Various topics integrated with Teacher’s College reading and writing
Science
Science:
- Introductions to Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics
- The Living Environment and The Scientific Method