This document provides a summary of the fifth grade reading unit for the week, which focuses on how people survive in the wilderness. The unit discusses the literary elements of theme and setting in the story Island of the Blue Dolphins. It also lists 20 spelling words and 10 amazing words related to surviving in the wilderness. The unit aims to teach students to make inferences and identify independent and dependent clauses through the reading selection and other activities.
This document provides a summary of the fifth grade reading unit for the week, which focuses on how people survive in the wilderness. The unit discusses the literary elements of theme and setting in the story Island of the Blue Dolphins. It also lists 20 spelling words and 10 amazing words related to surviving in the wilderness. The unit aims to teach students to make inferences and identify independent and dependent clauses through the reading selection and other activities.
This document provides a summary of the fifth grade reading unit for the week, which focuses on how people survive in the wilderness. The unit discusses the literary elements of theme and setting in the story Island of the Blue Dolphins. It also lists 20 spelling words and 10 amazing words related to surviving in the wilderness. The unit aims to teach students to make inferences and identify independent and dependent clauses through the reading selection and other activities.
This document provides a summary of the fifth grade reading unit for the week, which focuses on how people survive in the wilderness. The unit discusses the literary elements of theme and setting in the story Island of the Blue Dolphins. It also lists 20 spelling words and 10 amazing words related to surviving in the wilderness. The unit aims to teach students to make inferences and identify independent and dependent clauses through the reading selection and other activities.
Reading Street - Fifth Grade Unit 1 Week 3: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Question of the Week: How do people survive in the wilderness?
Comprehension: Amazing Words:
Literary Elements: Theme and 1. quartz- is a hard, glossy rock that is useful for Phonics and Spelling: Setting starting fires. Inferring Long Vowel Digraphs 2. gutted- if something is gutted, the inside of it has been removed or destroyed. Spelling Words: Writing Trait: Focus/Ideas 3. flint- is a very hard stone that makes a spark 1. coast when struck against steel and is used to start Conventions: Independent and 2. feast fires. Dependent Clauses 3. speech 4. blazing- is a verb that means to burn with a 4. wheat Writing Mini-Lesson: Invitation bright flame. 5. Spain 5. prey- means an animal that is hunted and 6. paint killed for food by other animals. Selection Vocabulary: Unknown 7. arrow 6. pursuit- is the act of pursuing or chasing. Words and Dictionary/Glossary 8. needle 7. shipwreck- happens when a ship is destroyed 9. charcoal or sunk at sea. 1. gnawed- wore away by 10. praise 8. famished- means very hungry or starving. persistent chewing. 11. faint 2. headland- a point of very high 9. resourceful- able to find clever ways of doing 12. mountain land that juts out into water. things. 13. crease 3. kelp- a kind of large, brown 10. wilderness- is a wild, uncultivated region with seaweed. 14. grain few people living in it. 4. lair- the place where a wild 15. breeze animal lives. 16. willow CCSS Assessed on Challenge Spelling 5. ravine- a small, narrow valley 17. appeal Weekly Test: Words: with steep sides. 18. bowling 6. shellfish- an animal that has a L.5.5c 19. complain 1. dungarees shell and lives in the water. RF.5.3a 20. sneeze 2. bungalow 7. sinew- a tough cord that RL.5.1 connects muscles to bones. 3. campaign RL.5.2 4. speedometer W.5.2 5. referee