GRADE 5
UNIT 1: NARRATIVE WRITING Week Days 1 and 2
Days 3 and 4
Day 5
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• Mode Lesson: Plot • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 4–7 • Mentor Text: The One Day House • Mode Lesson: Characters • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 8–11 • Mentor Text: The One Day House • Mode Lesson: Setting • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 12–15 • Mentor Text: The One Day House • Trait Lesson: Checking Spelling (Conventions) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: What’s New? The Zoo!
• Trait Lesson: Finding a Topic (Ideas) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Buried Sunlight • Trait Lesson: Creating the Lead (Organization) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Unspoken • Trait Lesson: Establishing a Tone (Voice) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: No Fuzzball! Invite students to choose a favorite piece of writing from the unit and share it with the class.
Conventions: Teach a grade-level standard for conventions and have students apply it by editing a piece of their writing from this week.
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SIX 4-WEEK UNITS ON NARRATIVE, INFORMATIONAL, AND OPINION WRITING
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Mentor Texts in Modes in Focus (MIF) You’ll Use
UNIT 2: INFORMATIONAL WRITING Week Days 1 and 2
Days 3 and 4
Day 5
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• Mode Lesson: Facts and Details • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 4–7 • Mentor Text: Big Cats
• Trait Lesson: Applying Strong Verbs (Word Choice) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Testing the Ice • Trait Lesson: Crafting Well-Built Sentences (Sentence Fluency) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 4–5 • Mentor Text: Jangles: A Big Fish Story • Trait Lesson: Focusing the Topic (Ideas) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 6–7 • Mentor Text: Buried Sunlight Invite students to choose a favorite piece of writing from the unit and share it with the class.
Conventions: Teach a grade-level standard for conventions and have students apply it by editing a piece of their writing from this week.
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• Mode Lesson: Structure and Features • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 8–11 • Mentor Text: Big Cats • Mode Lesson: Clarity and Focus • MIF Teaching Guide, pages 12–15 • Mentor Text: Big Cats • Trait Lesson: Punctuating Effectively (Conventions) • TCP Teaching Guide, pages 6–7 • Mentor Text: What’s New? The Zoo!
Mentor Texts in Trait Crate Plus (TCP) You’ll Use
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24 • Modes & Traits: Writing Lessons Across the Year
How to Combine Your Crates and Sequence the Lessons, Grade 5 • 25
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