Grade 5
Grade 5 English Language Arts
9 units and 52 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 5 student works through in English Language Arts — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 5 English Language Arts
OHM School · Grade 5
English Language Arts
9 units · 52 lessons
It opens with Word Study and Fluency and closes with Grammar and Vocabulary.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 9
Word Study and Fluency
2 lessons
Lessons
- 1Decoding Unfamiliar Words
- 2Fluency and Expression
Unit 2 of 9
Literature Study
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Quoting Accurately
- 2Analyzing Character Motivation
- 3Comparing Characters, Settings, and Events
- 4Figurative Language in Literature
- 5How Chapters Fit Together
- 6The Narrator's Point of View
- 7Analyzing Author's Craft
- 8Visual and Multimedia Elements
- 9Literature Discussion
- 10Reading Literature Independently
Unit 3 of 9
Theme Analysis
2 lessons
Lessons
- 1Identifying Theme
- 2Theme Across Different Texts
Unit 4 of 9
Reading Informational Text
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Quoting Informational Text
- 2Two or More Main Ideas
- 3Relationships Between People, Events, and Ideas
- 4Subject Vocabulary
- 5Comparing Text Structures
- 6Comparing Perspectives Across Sources
- 7Finding Answers Across Sources
- 8Reasons and Evidence
- 9Synthesizing Information from Multiple Sources
- 10Reading Nonfiction Independently
Unit 5 of 9
Opinion Writing
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Building a Persuasive Argument
- 2Addressing a Counterargument
- 3Persuasive Techniques
- 4Writing for a Specific Audience
Unit 6 of 9
Informative and Narrative Writing
7 lessons
Lessons
- 1Informative Writing with Sections
- 2Using Facts, Definitions, and Quotations
- 3Narrative Techniques
- 4Sequencing and Concluding Narratives
- 5Planning, Revising, and Rewriting
- 6Publishing and Collaborating Online
- 7Writing Routinely
Unit 7 of 9
Research
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Research Projects from Several Sources
- 2Notes, Paraphrasing, and Source Lists
- 3Evidence for Analysis
Unit 8 of 9
Speaking and Listening
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Summarizing What We Hear
- 2Evaluating a Speaker's Claims
- 3Presenting Opinions and Reports
- 4Multimedia Presentations
- 5Adapting Speech
Unit 9 of 9
Grammar and Vocabulary
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections
- 2Perfect Verb Tenses
- 3Verb Tense Consistency
- 4Correlative Conjunctions
- 5Commas and Titles
- 6Expanding and Combining Sentences
- 7Greek and Latin Roots
- 8Figurative Language and Homographs
- 9Words That Signal Logic
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered9 units and 52 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English Language Arts in Grade 5, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 5 student would work through today.
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