Grade 5 English Language Arts
21 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Language Arts”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.
- Reading and Viewing. Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a wide variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
- Writing and Other Ways of Representing. Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Units
Unit 1
Talk, Listen and Ask Why
Listening to summarize, joining a discussion respectfully, asking open-ended questions and using complex sentences with transition words to share ideas.
Curriculum outcome: 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 2.3 · asking why questions, explaining ideas and following clear instructions
Unit 2
Talking Together
Speaking and listening in a group: taking turns, building on ideas, asking questions, disagreeing respectfully and reaching decisions together.
Curriculum outcome: 1.1; 2.1; 3.1 · sharing ideas, taking turns and solving problems as a group
Unit 3
Reading Detectives
Reading original stories, a poem and nonfiction passages, then finding the theme and main idea, making inferences, describing characters, summarizing and working out word meanings.
Curriculum outcome: 4.4; 7.1 · finding the theme, making inferences and writing summaries
Unit 4
Plot and Conflict
The five parts of a plot, types of conflict (person vs. person, nature or self), and telling first-, second- and third-person point of view apart.
Curriculum outcome: 4.2; 6.1 · how a story's plot rises and falls and the conflicts in it
Unit 5
Read With a Purpose
Using prior knowledge, choosing varied texts, adjusting reading rate for purpose and checking understanding while reading.
Curriculum outcome: 4.1; 4.5 · choosing how to read, using what you know and adjusting your reading pace
Unit 6
Context Clues
Using the words around an unfamiliar word to figure out what it means, naming the type of clue, and choosing the right meaning of words like “bat” or “bank.”
Curriculum outcome: 4.4 · using context clues to work out new words
Unit 7
Greek and Latin Roots
Learning common Greek and Latin roots (like tele = far, port = carry, rupt = break) and using them to figure out long words such as “spectator” or “interrupt.”
Curriculum outcome: 4.4 · using Greek and Latin roots to unlock word meaning
Unit 8
Long Words: Chunk and Spell
Reading and spelling longer words by finding syllables, prefixes, suffixes and roots, and noticing common spelling patterns.
Curriculum outcome: 4.4; 10.2 · breaking long words into parts to read and spell them
Unit 9
Purpose and Structure
Deciding whether a text informs, persuades or entertains, recognizing five common text structures and their signal words, and using text features like the glossary and index.
Curriculum outcome: 7.2; 7.3 · why authors write and how texts are organized
Unit 10
Media Smarts
Spotting the tricks ads use, telling facts from opinions, and asking smart questions about who made a message and why.
Curriculum outcome: 7.1; 7.2 · spotting persuasive techniques in ads and other media
Unit 11
Diversity, Bias and Fairness in Texts
Recognizing how diversity and inclusion appear in texts, using evidence to support an opinion, and responding thoughtfully to stereotypes, bias and prejudice.
Curriculum outcome: 3.2; 7.3 · noticing who is included and who is left out in texts, and spotting bias
Unit 12
Style & Perspective
Noticing imagery, humour, voice and sentence length, using book parts like the preface and glossary, and spotting one-sided opinions in persuasive writing.
Curriculum outcome: 7.3; 8.3 · imagery, voice and bias in texts
Unit 13
Figurative Language
Spotting similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and alliteration, and explaining what common idioms really mean.
Curriculum outcome: 8.3 · similes, metaphors, idioms and more
Unit 14
Write for Your Reader
Writing to inform, persuade or entertain; formal and informal voice; and picking details, openings and word choices that suit the reader.
Curriculum outcome: 3.3; 9.2 · matching your words to the reader
Unit 15
Create With Words, Pictures and Sound
Planning and polishing texts that combine words, images, sound and video, and choosing fonts, layout and tools to suit an audience and purpose.
Curriculum outcome: 9.1; 9.2; 10.3 · creating with words, pictures and sound for an audience
Unit 16
Verb Tenses
Choosing irregular past-tense verbs (brought, swam, froze), making verbs agree with their subjects, naming tenses and keeping tense consistent within a sentence.
Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · past, present and future verb tenses and subject-verb agreement
Unit 17
Complex Sentences
Choosing conjunctions like although, because and unless, finding dependent and independent clauses, telling simple, compound and complex sentences apart, and combining sentences.
Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · clauses and conjunctions in complex sentences
Unit 18
Punctuation Power
Placing commas after introductory words, using colons before lists, writing possessives and contractions, choosing its/it's and their/there/they're, and punctuating dialogue.
Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · commas, colons and apostrophes
Unit 19
Spelling Smarts
Spelling rules (plurals, dropping the silent e, doubling a final consonant), homophones such as its and it's, commonly misspelled words and Canadian spellings like colour and centre.
Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · plurals, word endings and tricky words
Unit 20
Revise and Spell It Right
Using checklists and feedback to revise for order and focus, and using spelling patterns, strategies and dictionaries (with Canadian spelling) to check words.
Curriculum outcome: 10.1; 10.2 · revising writing for clarity and spelling tricky words
Unit 21
Set a Goal and Track Your Growth
Setting specific learning goals, using class criteria and descriptive feedback, and collecting evidence to see progress in reading, writing, speaking, listening and representing.
Curriculum outcome: 4.5; 10.4 · setting a goal, using criteria and feedback to improve
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