Grade 5
Theme Concept: Giving your best requires both determination and risk.
Theme 2: Give It All You’ve Got
Selection #1 Michelle Kwan
Focus Standards (CCSS)
Informational Text
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Comprehension Strategy: Evaluate
Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
Content Skill (How to…): Read a map
Structural Analysis: Compound words
Spelling: Compound words
Vocabulary: Word Families
Writing: Announcements
Grammar: Kinds of nouns
Reading for Informational Text
Writing
1. Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text
Language
3. Explain the relationships or interactions
between two or more individuals, events,
ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or
technical text based on specific information in
the text.
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts…
2. Write informative/explanatory texts…
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing.
(d) Use underlining, quotation marks, or
italics to indicate titles of works.
Speaking and Listening
4. Report on a topic or text or present an
opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using
appropriate facts and relevant descriptive
details to support main ideas or themes; speak
clearly at an understandable pace.
(a) Plan and deliver an opinion speech…
Building Background:
• Pg. 136-137 Discuss the sport of figure skating, the different advancement levels in figure skating
(amateur, Lady, Senior, etc.), different aspects of a presentation, and elements within a program to
understand the level of difficulty and determination/risk
• If possible, show video clips or Olympic events.
Selection-based Vocabulary:
amateur, artistic, compete, elements, judges, presentation, pressure, required, technical
Response to Literature Prompt/Expressive Task: (orally or in writing)
Compare Michelle Kwan’s determination with Warren Faidley’s in Eye of the Storm. How are they alike? How are they different? –OR What
are 3 character traits (qualities) that best describe Michelle Kwan? Provide at least one detail from the story to support each of the traits.
Additional Writing Task: Narrative
*Tell about a time you showed determination to reach a goal.
Grade 5
Theme Concept: Giving your best requires both determination and risk.
Theme 2: Give It All You’ve Got
Selection #2 La Bamba
Focus Standards (CCSS)
Literary Text
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill: Story Structure
Content Skill (How to…): Read a time line
Structural Analysis: Root Words, spec, spect,
opt
Spelling: /ou/, /Ô /, /oi/
Vocabulary: Multiple Meaning Words
Writing: Summary
Grammar: Action Verbs, Direct Objects
Reading Literature
Writing
2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or
poem, from details, in the text, including, how
characters in a story or drama respond to
challenges, or how the speaker in a poem
reflects upon a topic; summarize the text
Language
Speaking and Listening
2. Summarize written or text read aloud
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events…
1. Demonstrate command of conventions
of standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing.
Building Background:
• 160-161 Talk about experiences in talent shows.
Selection-based Vocabulary:
Applause, audience, debut, duo, embarrassed, forty-five record, limelight, pantomime,
rehearsal, talent
Response to Literature Prompt/Expressive Task: (orally or in writing)
What kind of a person do you think Manual is? How do you know?
Additional Writing Task: Informative/Explanatory
How do you think Manual would describe his experience in the talent show? Explain if it was a positive or negative experience and give at least 2
reasons.
Grade 5
Theme Concept: Giving your best requires both determination and risk.
Theme 2: Give It All You’ve Got
Selection #3 The Fear Place
Focus Standards (CCSS)
Literary Text
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Comprehension Strategy: Predict/Infer
Comprehension Skill: Predicting Outcomes
Content Skill (How to…): Skim and Scan
Structural Analysis: Suffixes- ous, -ward
Spelling: /Ôr/, /âr/, /är/
Vocabulary: Homophones
Writing: Clarification Composition
Grammar: Main/Helping Verbs
Reading Literature
1. Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
Speaking and Listening
1. Engage effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions with
diverse partners…
Writing
9. Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
Language
1. Demonstrate command of conventions
of standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing.
Building Background:
• 182-183 A boy must overcome his fear in order to help his brother. What frightens you?
Selection-based Vocabulary:
Adventure, cautious, concentrate, discomfort, dismayed, excitement, frightened,
immobile, stamina, terrified, unsure
Response to Literature Prompt/Expressive Task: (orally or in writing)
Additional Writing Task: Narrative
Grade 5
Theme Concept: Giving your best requires both determination and risk.
Theme 2: Give It All You’ve Got
Selection #4 Mae Jemison
Informational Text
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
Comprehension Skill: Topic, Main Idea, and
supporting details
Content Skill (How to…): Using text
organization
Structural Analysis: Suffixes: -ive, -ic
Spelling: /ûr/, /îr/
Vocabulary: Syllables in a dictionary
Writing: Business Letter
Grammar: Verb Tenses
Focus Standards (CCSS)
Reading Informational Texts
1. Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
3. Explain the relationships or interactions
between two or more individuals, events,
ideas or concepts in a historical, scientific, or
technical text based on specific information in
the text.
Speaking and Listening
4. Report on a topic or text or present an
opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using
appropriate facts and relevant descriptive
details to support main ideas or themes; speak
clearly at an understandable pace. (a) Plan
and deliver an opinion speech…
Writing
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts…
2. Write informative/explanatory texts…
Language
1. Demonstrate command of conventions
of standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing.
(d) Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics
to indicate titles of works.
Building Background:
• 208-209 A woman who broke down barriers set by others to become a doctor, a scientist, and an
astronaut. What do you know about space exploration?
Selection-based Vocabulary:
Astronaut, launches, mission, orbit, reusable, satellite, space shuttle, specialist,
weightlessness
Response to Literature Prompt/Expressive Task: (orally or in writing)
Why do you think the stories of Mae Jemison, Michelle Kwan, and Doug (include others as you choose) all
belong in the theme titled Give It All You’ve Got? What qualities do all these people have in common? (open-ended response)
Additional Writing Task: Narrative
Pick a moment in time where you faced an obstacle trying to achieve a goal?