5th Grade

Reading Units 1-3

Inventors at Work
Essential Question: What kinds of circumstances push people to create new inventions?
Central Idea • Retell/Summarize • Author’s Purpose • Point of View • Theme

What A Story
Essential Question: How does genre affect the way a story is told?
Text and Graphic Features • Synthesize • Literary Elements • Figurative Language • Literary Elements

Natural Disasters
Essential Question: How can learning about natural disasters make us safer?
Author’s Craft • Make and Confirm Predictions • Text Structure • Figurative Language • Content-Area WordsUNITS OF STUDY