​Crescent View Academy
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Unit One: EUREKA! i'VE GOT IT!
Week 1 - Meeting a Need
Week 2 - Trial & Error
Week 3 - Seeing for Yourself
Week 4 - Inventions
Week 5 - New Technology
Week 6 - Review
Big Idea: Where can an idea begin?
Unit One covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - rereading, finding character, setting, plot, sequence, and problem and solutions, how to ask and answer questions, cause and effect, sequencing, and understanding the author's point of view.
Genres - realistic fiction, narrative nonfiction, biographies, and persuasive articles.
Phonics - Short vowels, long vowels, r-Controlled vowels, and words with /u/.
Big Idea: How are we all connected?
Unit Six: LINKED IN
Week 1 - Joining Forces
Week 2 - Getting Along
Week 3 - Adaptations
Week 4 -Making a Difference
Week 5 - Out in the World
Week 6 - Review
Unit Six covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - Summarizing, theme, asking and answering questins, cause and effect, problem and solution, literary elements (assonance and consonance), and point of view.
Genres - Historical fiction, realistic fiction, expository text, biography, lyric and narrative
Word Study - Words with Greek and Latin Roots, words from mythology, number prefixes uni-, bi-, tri-, and centi-, and suffixes -ible, and -able.
Big Idea: In what ways can things change?
Unit Five: WHAT'S NEXT?
Week 1 - New Perspectives
Week 2 - Better Together
Week 3 - Our Changing Earth
Week 4 - Now We Know
Week 5 - Scientific Viewpoints
Week 6 - Review
Unit Five covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - Making predictions, character, setting, plot, compare and contrast, ask and answer question, text structure, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and author's point of view.
Genres - Realistic fiction, historical fiction, expository text, and persuasive article.
Word study and phonics - Suffixes, homophones, prefixes, suffixes -less and -ness, suffix -ion
Big Idea: How do we decide what's important?
Unit Four: IT'S UP TO YOU!
Week 1 - Sharing Stories
Week 2 - Discoveries
Week 3 - Take Action
Week 4 - Consider Our Resources
Week 5 - Express Yourself
Week 6 - Review
Unit Four covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - Visualize, point of view, summarizing, author's point of view, and literary elements (stanza and meter), theme.
Genres - Tall tales, mystery, biography, expository text, lyric and free verse
Word study and phonics - words with final /al/ and /en/, prefixes, homographs, /char/ and /zhar/, and suffixes -ance and -ence
Unit Two: TAKING THE NEXT STEP
Week 1 - Reaching a Compromise
Week 2 - Seeking the Answer
Week 3 - Investigations
Week 4 - A Plan of Action
Week 5 - Making It Happen
Week 6 - Review
Big Idea: What does it take to put a plan into action?
Unit Two covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - Rereading, problem and solution, making predictions, character, plot, compare and contrast, sequence, and theme.
Genres - Expository text, fairy tale, biographies, folktale, narrative and free verse
Word Study and phonics - Variant vowels /o/; diphthongs /oi/, plurals, inflectional endings, contractions, closed syllables.
Unit Three: GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
Week 1 - Cultural Exchange
Week 2 - Being Resourceful
Week 3 - Patterns
Week 4 - Teamwork
Week 5 - Into the Past
Week 6 - Review
Big Idea: What kinds of experiences can lead to new discoveries?
Unit Three covers the following topics:
Comprehension strategies - Summarizing, theme, asking and answering questions, main idea and key details, and point of view.
Genres - Realistic fiction, fantasy, expository text, and persuasive articles.
Phonics - Open syllables and vowel team syllables, consonant + le syllables, and r-controlled syllables
5th Grade Language Arts Curriculum
Below you will find the 5th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Outline