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This course description defines what students should understand and be able to do by the end of Grade 5.General Notes
Special Notes:Instructional Practices: Teaching from well-written, grade-level instructional materials enhances students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any reason. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning:
- Reading assignments from longer text passages as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
- Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
- Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
- Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
- Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).
English Language Development ELD Standards Special Notes Section:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate information, ideas and concepts for academic success in the content area of Language Arts. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/la.pdf
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Original Student Tutorials
Read about the sinking of the Titanic and learn to identify key ideas in multiple texts, review similarities and differences between those key ideas, and identify the difference between important and interesting key ideas. This interactive tutorial will help you integrate information from several texts on the same topic.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Meet Detective Brown! He and his friends are all detectives.You know, readers are just like detectives. Detectives try to solve mysteries when they're on a case and readers try to solve mysteries when they're trying to determine the meaning of what they're reading. Just like detectives, readers need to look for clues to help them figure out the meanings of unknown words and phrases. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to use context clues to help you understand the meaning of a word or phrase.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to draw information from multiple print sources to locate an answer to any research question quickly.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event and note important similarities and differences in the points of view they represent with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify components within a galaxy such as gas, dust, stars and objects that orbit stars with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify a control group and explain its importance in an experiment with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about the importance of repeated trials in a scientific experiment with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Meet Melvin the Magician! When you’re dealing with magic, things are not always as they appear. That’s what makes magic fun! Similarly, when you’re working with adages and proverbs, things are also not always as they appear. Melvin will never reveal the secrets to his magic tricks, but he will reveal the secret to figuring out what adages and proverbs mean. Learn how to recognize adages and proverbs and explain their meaning.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Review commas to separate items in a series, then practice placing semicolons to separate items in a series as you complete this interactive, baseball-themed tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to recognize idioms and explain their meanings as you complete this interactive, magic-themed tutorial.
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Learn to quote accurately from a text when answering explicit questions and when supporting inferences from the text as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how authentic scientific investigations do not always follow the steps of the traditional "scientific method" with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Student Center Activity
Students can practice answering reading comprehension questions with a text about online learning. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.
Type: Student Center Activity
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