Grade 5 Overall Expectations:
Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
- Skulduggery Pleasant (Book)
- Atlas Obscura (Book)
- The Magician’s Elephant (Book)
- Rachel Carson (Book)
- Bridge To Terabithia (Book)
- A Wrinkle in Time (Book)
- The Monster Hypothesis (Book)
- Notorious (CloudLibrary eBook)
- Winterborne: Home for Vengeance and Valor (CloudLibrary eBook)
- Zia (Hoopla eBook)
- The cat that broke the Internet’s back (Website)
- Before, during and after reading (YouTube)
Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
- Treasury of Greek Mythology (Book)
- Because of Winn-Dixie (Book)
- Our Game (Book)
- Foreverland (CloudLibrary eBook)
- Into the Dark (Hoopla eBook)
- Grade 5 sight words (YouTube)
- The Simple Summary (YouTube)
- Roald Dahl (Website)
Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
- If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late (Book)
- Canadian Poems for Canadian Kids (Book)
- Camping with unicorns (Hoopla eBook)
- The Three Cueing System: Fact or Fiction (YouTube)
- We Ate All the Cheetos (Website)
- I’m Only Half a Werewolf (Website)
- Banff National Park (Website)
Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
- Complete EnglishSmart Grade 5 (Book)
- Summarize while reading (YouTube)
- Mind Maps (YouTube)
- Reading comprehension-Spitting to survive (Website)
- The Harry Potter Lexicon (Website)