Fifth Grade Idea Sharing

 Shauna Juarez, Literacy Coach at Alvin School (SMBSD) has created banners that feature the theme title, theme concept, and supporting pictures.  Download these two page banners, glue them together, and add them to your theme focus wall.  (The files are somewhat large, so be patient as they download.)

Theme 1                             Theme 2

Theme 3                             Theme 4 

Theme 5                             Theme 6

The link below will take you to the Vocabulary Page where you will find pictures for each key vocabulary word in the Houghton Mifflin reading anthology. 

Vocabulary Page

The link below will take you to the Reading Writing Workshop page where you will find posters for each of the genres taught in the RWW.  Student self-check posters and "Tips" posters for each lesson in each RWW are also there.

Writing Page 

The link below will give you a table that lists the comprehension strategy, comprehension skill, spelling and structural analysis elements, and the grammar focus for each week of the Fifth Grade Houghton Mifflin Reading program.  

Fifth Grade Reading at a Glance

Pamela Monninger, Desert Sands Unified School District, created an Autobiography genre poster that you can find on the Posters, Charts, etc. page.

Check out the new Writing Tab.  There's information on it to support the Reading Writing Workshop.

To personalize your classroom focus wall have your students bring in realia that supports the Theme. Use these parent letters to request help in gathering materials, books, artifacts, and pictures to display in your room.

Theme 1

Theme 2

Theme 3

Theme 4

Theme 5

Theme 6

Jeff Siler from Perris, California recently sent several files for Theme 1, Fifth Grade.  Unfortunately, many of the files were Power Point presentations that cannot be uploaded to this website.  However, with a bit of creative "cutting and pasting" some of the pages in the Power Point presentations were turned into PDF files.  Thanks to Jeff and his fellow teachers for sharing their hard work.  Check out these files:

Speaking to Persuade

Characteristics of Narrative Nonfiction for Earthquake Terror 

The link below will produce a one-page list of the fifth grade comprehension skills taught in the Houghton Mifflin Reading Program. Use the poster maker in the IMC to enlarge this page for your focus wall. Then use an arrow or other icon to indicate the weekly comprehension skill focus.

Comprehension Skills for Fifth Grade

Check out this Proofreading Marks poster.  Make individual copies for your students or enlarge it with the poster maker for a classroom reference.  The proofreading marks taught in the Houghton Mifflin program begin with just a few in first grade and build to the full set you see on this poster.  Proofreading or Editing posters purchased commercially may be very different than the ones taught and used in the HM Reading Program.

Proofreading Marks Poster