📚 5th grade English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   🎢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.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.8(B); 5.8(C) · plot structure and conflict

2. Unit 2

   🎨Figurative Language

   Spotting similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and alliteration, and explaining what common idioms really mean.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.9(B); 5.10(D) · similes, metaphors, idioms and more

3. Unit 3

   🧭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.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.10(A); 5.10(B) · an author's purpose and text structure

4. Unit 4

   🧩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.”

   TEKS student expectation: 5.3(B) · using context to work out word meanings

5. Unit 5

   🌱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.”

   TEKS student expectation: 5.2(A); 5.3(C) · Greek and Latin roots

6. Unit 6

   🔗Complex Sentences

   Choosing conjunctions like although, because and unless, finding dependent and independent clauses, telling simple, compound and complex sentences apart, and combining sentences.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.11(D) · clauses and subordinating conjunctions

7. Unit 7

   ✒️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.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.11(D) · commas, colons and apostrophes

8. Unit 8

   📺Media Smarts

   Spotting the tricks ads use, telling facts from opinions, and asking smart questions about who made a message and why.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.9(F); 5.10(A) · the purposes of ads and the techniques they use to persuade

9. Unit 9

   🎨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.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.9(F); 5.11(A) · choosing words, images, sound and design for an audience

10. Unit 10

    📚Research Ready

    Children practice narrowing a research question, searching with keywords, judging sources, telling sponsored content from information, taking notes, paraphrasing and citing sources instead of copying.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.13(A); 5.13(D); 5.13(G) · research questions, judging sources, taking notes and listing sources

11. Unit 11

    🔤Spelling Smarts

    Children practice US spelling of words with suffixes (-ful, -ly, -ous, -ment, -able, -ible), doubling rules, i before e and commonly misspelled words.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.2(B) · spelling with suffix rules and spelling patterns

12. Unit 12

    😄Adages, Puns & Persuasion

    Your child explains common adages and puns, and the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping and anecdote in what they read.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.3(D); 5.10(G) · adages and puns, and the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping and anecdote

13. Unit 13

    🔬Sound Changes & Word Parts

    Your child reads and spells words whose sounds change when a suffix is added (music, musician) and uses the affixes and roots trans-, super-, -ive, -logy, geo and photo.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.2(A); 5.2(B); 5.3(C) · consonant sound changes and the affixes and roots trans-, super-, -ive, -logy, geo and photo