Fifth Grade
Remember to review any skills necessary in previous grade levels before continuing.
Nouns
- Focus on verse two. Complete grammar sheets “Identifying Tangible and Intangible Nouns” and “Categorizing Tangible and Intangible Nouns.”
- Extra Engagement: Print out and cut apart “Tangible and Intangible Noun Cards (upper level)” to practice sorting nouns in a hands-on way as a whole class, at an independent literacy center, or withing a cooperative learning structure. Use “Hands-on Advanced Noun Sort” as another activity to follow-up with more practice or use as an individual assessment tool.
Proper Nouns
- Review “Using Proper Nouns” and/or “Editing for Proper Nouns” to reinforce the purpose of their use within writing and to highlight their mechanics.
I Need a Verb
- Review verse 2, in which mental action verbs are introduced. Complete grammar sheet “Analyzing Action Verbs.”
- Other option: Use the “Categorizing Action Verbs Cards (upper level)” or “Categorizing Action Verbs Cards (intermediate)” within a cooperative learning structure, whole class, or as a center to practice differentiating between physical and mental actions.
Linking Verbs
- Use “Printable Verb Cards” to review differentiating between action verbs and linking verbs.
Good and Well
- Remind students that the reason to differentiate whether to use “good” or “well” when writing or speaking is found within the verb. Introduce the exception as presented at the top of grammar sheet “Using Good or Well (with exceptions).”
Helping Verbs
- Practice locating helping verbs within sentences by completing the grammar sheet “Identifying Helping Verbs." (See grammar sheet “Understanding Helping Verbs” if more review is required.
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- Complete grammar sheet “Pronoun and Antecedent Practice.” **Encourage students to examine samples of authentic literature or selections within a basal text for examples of pronoun and antecedent agreement.
- When writing stories, summaries, opinions, or informational text, identify pronouns being used, and be sure they reference their antecedents to keep writing clear and understandable for the reader.
Reflexive Pronouns
- Play “Reflexive Pronoun Matching” and complete grammar sheets “Using Reflexive Pronouns” and “Understanding Reflexive Pronouns.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a white board or smart board to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
Adverbs
- Review any activities from previous grade levels as “warm-ups.” Complete the grammar sheet “Generating Adverbs” to practice creating adverbs that tell how, where, and when to correlate with certain verbs.
- Complete grammar sheet “Using More Adverbs When Writing.” Focus on identifying the verb, and adding adverbs to modify the verb by telling how, where, or when.
Antonym Blues
- Play “Intermediate Antonym Match” and/or “Upper-Level Antonym Match” for students with higher vocabularies. Allow students to create their own antonym matching games.
Synonym Symphony
- Play “Intermediate Synonym Match.” Play “Upper-Level Synonym Match” for students with high vocabularies. Allow students to create their own synonym matching games.
- Extra Engagement: Complete activities presented in “Synonym Vocab and Writing Activities."
- Complete grammar sheet “Using Synonyms When Writing” to practice using “juicier” nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and adverbs when writing.
- Complete grammar sheets “Differentiating Between Synonyms and Antonyms (Basic)” and/or “Differentiating Between Synonyms and Antonyms (Advanced).”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented in the grammar sheets within a whole class cooperative learning structure or at a learning center to present the information in a more hands-on form.
- Complete grammar sheet “Synonyms and Antonyms with Upper-Level Vocab” as an independent assessment.
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- Complete grammar sheets “Homophone Differentiation (Challenge)” and/or “Homophone Review.”
- Extra Engagement: Print out and cut apart “Homophone Matching Cards (Intermediate)” and/or “Homophone Matching Cards (Advanced).” Allow students to cooperatively play as a memory match/concentration matching game. When a child gets a match, he or she should orally use each of the words in a sentence. This provides an instant formative assessment to exemplify the student's understanding of each individual homophone.
- Complete grammar sheet “Homophone Quiz.”
- Notice the use of homophones when reading and writing.
Homograph Blues
- Help students differentiate between homographs and homophones by orally reading the sentences in the GrammarSong activity “Oral Homograph and Homophone Differentiation." Students could hold up individual white boards denoting whether each thinks the sentences represent homographs or homophone usage. This activity could also be presented as a partner or small group collaboration. **Students should verbalize WHY they arrived at the answer they chose.
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- Review grammar sheets “Prefix Match with Answer Key” and “Using Prefixes” as needed.
- Extra Engagement: Use “Prefix Game Cards” to practice matching prefixes with definitions from the song.
- Notice words containing prefixes when reading. Note how the prefix affects the meaning of the root or base word. Extend this into other subject areas such as math and science.
- Review “Suffix Matching,” “Suffix Matching Quiz,” and “Suffix Sort” grammar sheets. These grammar sheets can be used independently during literacy centers or as a formative assessment. Notice words containing suffixes when reading.
- Note how the suffix affects the meaning of the root or base word when reading in literature or basal texts. Extend this into other subject areas like math and science.
- Print out and play “Affix Bingo” to practice matching prefixes and suffixes with their meanings. Print out and use the “Applying Affixes to Determine Word Meanings” activity as a teacher-led center or as an independent writing center.
Sounds Like Greek to Me
- Complete grammar sheet “Greek and Latin Roots Cut and Paste." Fill in graphic organizer by brainstorming and researching words that contain the Greek and Latin roots presented in the grammar sheet.
- Complete “Greek and Latin Word Work” or “Greek and Latin Root Dictionary Work” independently.
- Print out and present students with cards from “Greek and Latin Roots Matching Game,” ”Suffix Game Cards,” and “Prefix Game Cards.” Invite them students to “invent” new words by combining the prefixes, suffixes, and roots in new and unusual ways. For example “Undentful” would mean “not full of teeth.”The old lady's mouth was undentful.
- Complete grammar sheet “Affix and Root Word Review”.
Direct Objects
- Complete grammar sheets “Identifying Direct Objects” and “Generating Direct Objects.”
- Extra Engagement: Print out and complete “Direct Object and Prepositional Phrase” grammar activity. Use this as a whole class activity, partner activity, or teacher-led center. Don't forget to share final products!
Preposition Composition
- Complete grammar sheets “Preposition Story,” “Preposition Practice” or “Preposition Review with Adjectives.” As always, the information presented within the grammar sheet may be used as a smart board or white board whole class lesson, within a cooperative learning structure, or as an independent learning center.
- Extra Engagement: Print out and cut apart “Preposition Multiple Choice Game Cards.” Use the cards with a game board, as a review for partners, or as a simple literacy center.
- Even More Engagement: Complete grammar activity “Prepositions Literature Writing Activity” to bring an understanding of the reason for using prepositions into real life.
Helping Verbs
- Complete grammar sheet “Identifying Helping Verbs.”
Context Clues
- Complete grammar sheet “More Context Clues.” Identify whether the clue provided was a synonym, antonym, definition, or example.
- Extra Engagement: Print out and play “Context Clues Game (Intermediate)” and/or “Context Clue Game (Advanced)” to practice using context clues in a game-friendly format. The self-checking cards can be used with a game board, within a cooperative learning structure, or as a literacy center.
Main Idea
- Complete review grammar activity “Main Idea (Advanced)” as an independent or center activity.
Making Inferences
- If necessary, complete grammar sheet “Making Inferences” independently or with partners to connect the fact that we make inferences in our real life communication everyday without even knowing it! Use grammar activity “Making Inferences Intro” on the smartboard or interactive whiteboard to model how to make and support inferences (by showing text evidence) when reading. If necessary, use grammar sheets “More Inferences” and “Supporting Inferences” as review to practice citing text evidence to support inferences made.
- Complete grammar activities “Inference Work” and “Inference Practice and Challenge” to build independent skills in reading and interpreting text while citing evidence to support inferences made.
Alliteration
- If necessary, complete grammar sheet “Alliteration” as a review.
- No prep writing center: Encourage students to create their own “tongue twisters” as a memorable activity for learning alliteration. If desired, combine the students' creations to make a Class Alliteration Book of fun tongue-twisters.
Similes and Metaphors
- Complete grammar sheets “Similes and Metaphors” and “Making Comparisons Using Similes and Metaphors.”
Idioms
- Complete grammar sheet game “Idiom Match” and grammar sheet “Idiom Fun” if needed.
- Extra Engagement: Complete activities under “Idioms Literature and Writing Activities.”
Hyperbole
- Complete grammar sheet “Hyperbole Recognition.”
Onomatopoeia
- If necessary review onomatopoeia by playing “Onomatopoeia Match” hands-on matching game and completing grammar sheet “Understanding Onomatopoeia.” Complete grammar sheet “Using Onomatopoeia.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a white board or smart board to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
Personification
- If necessary, review grammar sheets “Identifying Personification” and “Using Personification.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a whiteboard or smartboard to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
- Review multiple forms of figurative language simultaneously by Using the “Figurative Language 'I Do...We Do...' Introduction” activity using a smartboard or interactive whiteboard. Complete the “Hands-On Figurative Language Lesson.”
- As a teacher-led center activity, complete the “Analyzing Figurative Language” activity. For independent follow-up, or using a partner or cooperative learning structure, complete grammar sheets “Figurative Language Fiesta” and “Figurative Language Comprehensive Review.”
May I Quote You on That?
- Complete grammar sheets “Quotation Mark Editor” and “Adding Quotation Marks.”
- Extra Engagement: Complete grammar writing activities “Hands-On Quotation Marks” and/or activities described in “Quotation Marks Literature and Writing.”
Possessives
- Complete grammar sheets “Using Apostrophes,” “Evaluating Apostrophe Usage,” “Apostrophe Editing Review,” and “Correct Apostrophe Usage.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented in the grammar sheets within a cooperative learning structure or as a whole class lesson on the whiteboard or smartboard. Cut apart the sentences, and paste the answer key back-to-back to create a self-checking learning center or partner activity.
- Notice and discuss apostrophe usage when reading in real literature or in textbooks (within any subject area). When students see apostrophes when reading, encourage them to note whether the apostrophe is being used because of a contraction or because of a possessive.
- Extra Engagement: Print out and play “Hands-On Contractions or Possessives” in small groups, as a center, or with partners. For yet another option, use the self-checking game cards with a simple game board and die for an instant learning game.
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- Complete grammar sheet “Four Kinds of Sentences Differentiation.”
- Extra Engagement: Print out and prepare the “Four Kinds of Sentences Sorting Activity” to be used as a literacy center or withing a cooperative learning structure.
- Randomly open a book and point at a sentence. Identify the sentence as either declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory.
- Complete grammar sheet “Editing for Compound Sentences,” “Making Compound Sentences,” and “Paragraph Needing Conjunctions.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a whiteboard or smartboard to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
Run-On Sentences
- Complete grammar sheets “Editing for Run-ons (Intermediate)” and “Editing for Run-Ons (Upper Level).”
Subordinating Conjunctions
- Review grammar sheets “Identifying Subordinating Conjunctions” and “Understanding Subordinating Conjunctions” as needed. Complete grammar sheet “Using Subordinating Conjunctions.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a whiteboard or smartboard to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
Correlative Conjunctions
- Complete grammar sheets “Correlative Conjunctions” and “Using Correlative Conjunctions.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a whiteboard or smartboard to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
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- Complete grammar sheets “Identifying Clauses,” "Creating Complex Sentences,” “Identifying Sentence Structures,” and “More Identifying Sentence Structures.”
- Extra Engagement: Print and cut apart “Analyzing Sentence Structures Task Cards.” Cut the cards across the page into large rectangles and fold and secure on the center line to create a game or self-checking literacy center.