E. Demonstrate reading improvement through substantial amounts of daily assigned and self-selected materials for a variety of purposes

1. select appropriate reading materials
2. voluntarily engage in reading

Education Place Activity: Be an Advice Columnist!
Students will write letters asking for advice. Then they will exchange letters and write responses.

Internet Field Trip: Series Books
Take a trip to some of the Internet's websites on series books. 

Research Building Blocks:  Hints about Print
This lesson focuses on helping children to make good decisions about choosing nonfiction text.  Be sure to use the interactive part of this lesson!

CyberGuides 4-5
Use these CyberGuides to accompany various books

Book Club Lesson Plan for The View from Saturday
This site gives 14 days worth of lesson plans for this book.
 

Super Sorter:  Riffington's Super Sorter Machine generates a list of books for kids based on their interests.

TeachersFirst Reading Selections for Grade 5:  This site offers a list of books our teacher editors suggest for students in fifth grade.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Determine key similarities or differences between simple, illustratively supported fiction works and express with simple spoken or written sentences.
E/B: Respond to simple factual questions about a brief illustrated short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers), with one-to-two word responses, or with simple spoken or written words and phrases;
E/B: Create pictures, lists, charts, and graphic organizers to illustrate characteristics of fictional short stories.
E/B: Demonstrate the sequence of events from an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses.
E/B: Identify key characters in a short story nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses; D: Identify key characters and main ideas in simple literature with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify actions of characters in fiction and relate to plot or theme.
E/B: Distinguish between poetry, drama, and short stories when read aloud by using simple spoken sentences; D: Read different and simple literature (poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction) and orally identify each genre and its basic features with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify the main characteristics of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
D: Identify the speaker or narrator of a given text with simple spoken and written sentences.
D: Respond to simple factual questions about brief fiction works and express with simple spoken and written sentences.
E: Identify the main idea of a given text and identify how conflict is resolved.
E: Read literature and orally identify metaphors and similes.
E: Identify point of view (i.e. first or third person).
 

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